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--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... ==[reply]

"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)[reply]

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)[reply]

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)[reply]

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)[reply]

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)[reply]

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)[reply]

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

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)[reply]