Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Entertainment/2013 April 4

= April 4 =

--80.80.171.4 (talk) 10:29, 25 November 2013 (UTC)== I need to know what movie or book this quote came from and I'm not getting anything putting it in the search... ==

"After my release I was focused on staying straight. Being a square. Living the dream as they say. I would walk the streets of this strange town looking for something that was simply no there. After some time had passed I would stroll passed certain shops and businesses and for some reason imagine I had a sub-machine gun or assault rifle, Turning the glass to flake and the people into Swiss flesh. As if they deserved it. I didn't know these fucking people but I wanted them to die. Many times I imagine just walking passed a store and drawing down without looking and sending a single impulse to my left index finger to move one quarter of an inch, depress the trigger and wave my arm. Lead fall where it may."

I need to know what movie or book this quote came from if at all possible... I entered this in the search and came up with nothing.

My email address is [email address removed]. If someone could get back with me soon that would be greatly appreciated. Thank you so much.


 * I've removed your email address, as it would invite spam. All answers to questions posted here are also posted here.  --   Jack of Oz   [Talk]  21:26, 4 April 2013 (UTC)


 * Since it should be "past" rather than "passed", that might have inhibited the search. When I'm trying to find an obscure quote, I usually google only a small but relativel distinctive part of the quote and see what the google magic machine can find. ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 21:46, 4 April 2013 (UTC)


 * To be clear, in "After some time had passed I would stroll passed certain shops", the first "passed" is fine, but the second one should be "past". --   Jack of Oz   [Talk]  01:32, 5 April 2013 (UTC)
 * Yes. Meanwhile, I took my own advice, but likewise I am not finding anything in Google. ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 03:24, 5 April 2013 (UTC)
 * Speaking of quotes, Jack has some classics at User:JackofOz/Quotes and Anti-Quotes. :) ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 04:53, 5 April 2013 (UTC)


 * Speaking of quotes I come across, here's one I just read a minute ago. It's from a letter by James Boswell, quoted in our article: I got myself quite intoxicated, went to a Bawdy-house and past a whole night in the arms of a Whore.  If that is a faithful rendering of his spelling, then either he was a better biographer than a grammarian, or in the intervening years the past tense of "pass" has passed from "past" to "passed".  --   Jack of Oz   [Talk]  22:20, 6 April 2013 (UTC)

Where did you find this quote? This may help others. RunningUranium (talk) 00:27, 5 April 2013 (UTC)


 * It sounds as if the passage is a translation into English from another language; something about the sentence flow that's not entirely idiomatic. Which would make it harder to find the original source. --Xuxl (talk) 09:40, 5 April 2013 (UTC)