The one-liners (or a few) in this show were fantastic. Not to say I subscribe to what was flying out of Rust’s mouth, but maybe I do in some strange way. It intrigued me enough to blog about it.
By the third episode I knew I wanted to make a list of my favorite Rust quotes, here they are:
“It's thursday and it's past noon. Thursday is one of my days off. On Thursdays I start drinking at noon. You don't get to interrupt that.”
“I see a propensity for obesity. Poverty. A yen for fairy tales. Folks puttin' what few bucks they do have into a little wicker basket being passed around. I think it's safe to say nobody here's gonna be splitting the atom, Marty.”
“Certain linguistic anthropologists think that religion is a language virus that rewrites pathways in the brain. Dulls critical thinking.”
Marty: Well, I don’t use ten dollar words as much as you, but for a guy who sees no point in existence, you sure fret about it an awful lot; and you still sound panicked.
“At least I’m not racing to a red light.”
"People out here, it's like they don't even know the outside world exists. Might as well be living on the fucking Moon. It's all one ghetto, man. A giant gutter in outer space."
"I think human consciousness, is a tragic misstep in evolution. We became too self-aware, nature created an aspect of nature separate from itself, we are creatures that should not exist by natural law. We are things that labor under the illusion of having a self; an accretion of sensory, experience and feeling, programmed with total assurance that we are each somebody, when in fact everybody is nobody. Maybe the honorable thing for our species to do is deny our programming, stop reproducing, walk hand in hand into extinction, one last midnight - brothers and sisters opting out of a raw deal."
"If the only thing keeping a person decent is the expectation of divine reward then, brother, that person is a piece of shit. And I’d like to get as many of them out in the open as possible. ....
You gotta get together and tell yourself stories that violate every law of the universe just to get through the goddamn day? What’s that say about your reality?"
"The world needs bad men. We keep the other bad men from the door."
"Death created time to grow the things that it would kill."
“There is no such thing as forgiveness. People just have short memories."
“Been that way since one monkey looked at the sun and told the other monkey, 'He said for you to give me your fucking share.' People… so god damn frail they’d rather put a coin in the wishing well than buy dinner.
….Yeah, well if the common good’s gotta make up fairy tales then it’s not good for anybody.”
“People incapable of guilt, usually do have a good time.”
“All your life, all your love, all your hate, all your memory, all your pain... is all the same dream: The dream about being a person.”
“Men, women... it's not supposed to work except to make kids.”
“Look, as sentient meat, however illusory our identities are, we craft those identities by making value judgements.
Everybody judges, all the time. Now, you got a problem with that, you’re living wrong.”
“Life’s barely long enough to get good at one thing. So be careful what you get good at.”
“This is a bar, not a fucking bedside. And being stupid’s not the same thing as catching sick.”
"Well, once there was only dark. If you ask me, the light's winning."
