(via givememysleepingpills)
via givememysleepingpills
Alan:
I always feel slightly sick to my stomach when I work alone in the office late at night.
Denise:
I thought you liked being alone.
Alan:
I love being alone. I just prefer to be alone when there are other people around.
via kendrafails
There’s nothing more life-affirming than a little death tucked in the back of your mind.
Alan Shore (via asgardianbrothertouching)
via asgardianbrothertouching
Objection to the term “sex job”. It’s inaccurate and makes me giggle.
Alan Shore (via stuck-in-this-predicament)
via stuck-in-this-predicament
My best friend has Alzheimer’s…The truth is, I don’t think he’ll ever come to me and say, “This is the day I want to die.” But the day is coming. And he won’t know it. This is perhaps the most insidious thing about Alzheimer’s. But you see, he trusts me to know when that day has arrived. He trusts me to safeguard his dignity, his legacy and self-respect. He trusts me to prevent his end from becoming a mindless piece of mush. And I will. It will be an unbearably painful thing for me but I will do it because I love him. I will end his suffering. Because it’s the only decent, humane, and loving thing a person can do.
via goodnamesweretaken
The Purple Thread.
Alan Shore:
You know, Marissa, not smiling has its benefits. You don't give away your thoughts so easily. It's a great advantage in card playing.
Marissa Deaver:
That's funny, but... I'd rather fit in.
Alan Shore:
Have you ever heard of a Greek philosopher named Epictetus?
Marissa Deaver:
No.
Alan Shore:
He was a funny man with a certain flare for life. Epictetus compared people who "fit in" to the white threads of a toga. Indistinguishable. He wanted to be the purple thread. "That small part which is bright, and makes all the rest appear graceful and beautiful. Why then," he asked, "do you tell me to make myself like the many? And if I do, how shall I still be purple?"
Marissa Deaver:
Sometimes being purple is kind of a pain.
Alan Shore:
Yes.
via kendrafails
People walk around today calling everyone their best friend. The term doesn’t have any real meaning anymore. Mere acquaintances are lavished with hugs and kisses upon a second or at most third meeting, birthday cards get passed around offices so everybody can scribble a snippet of sentimentality for a colleague they barely met, and everyone just loves everyone. As a result, when you tell somebody you love them today, it isn’t much heard.
Alan Shore (James Spader, Boston Legal)
via spookyck
High-res
supercalifragipopculturevomit:
What is it with James Spader calling women bitches in parking lots? I thought I was imagining it but having both clips side by side, I’m certain this scene in The Practice (episode 13, season 8) is a Pretty in Pink reference. Perhaps it isn’t as blatant as the one in Boston Legal, when Spader makes that comment about William Shatner (who plays Denny Crane) being pretty in pink dressed as a flamingo, but the whole set-up, the word play… it’s too uncannily similar. How cool is it though that Betty White gets Molly Ringwald her payback? 19 years might be a long time, but still. A comment like that must’ve reeked.
