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mesillusionssousecstasy · 7 months

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The Fall of the House of Usher : Quotes

"- And if anyone, anyone comes after us, we will exhaust our arsenal until the threat's neutralized. - By neutralized, do you mean sued into oblivion, taken out of the Board, out of the will, on the streets... - Neutralized. Like dead. (Episode 1)

"- Algorithms aren't high tech. They've been around since antiquity. An algorithm is just a finite sequence of all defined instructions to solve a problem, or perform a computation." (Episode 2)

"- Nothing worth having is ever easy." (Episode 2)

"- It's better, I promise, in the moment just before than in the moment after." (Episode 2)

"- We need to talk because when people ask, there are some things you absolutely cannot say." (Episode 3)

"- That's why we've a charity wing, so you paste someone's face on it." (Camille - Episode 3)

"- We remember that he did it, so he did it." (Episode 3)

"- Because opportunity doesn't give a fuck what you're going through." (Episode 3)

"- That's why they hate us. Not because we grabbed the opportunity, but because they didn't." (Episode 3)

"- Like, I make video games, you know? (Leo) - You don't make video games. You give money to people who make video games. No, no. An idea is nothing. An idea is fart that your brain makes. But if you patent an idea, well, then it's an asset. (Camille - Episode 3)

"- You're gonna do the smart thing and go back to your crossword puzzle or else I'll have you fired and sued." (Episode 3)

"- What's a six-letter word for "fucked"?" (Episode 3)

"- I'm gonna need you to tell me who the fuck you think you are." (Episode 3)

"- I can hear Camille's voice in my head right now. "Satin is silk for poor people, no one should wear it to a funeral, unless they died in it." Fuck's sake." (Leo - Episode 4)

"- The other go-to coping mechanism in my family. It's when you direct your more intense reactions towards something or someone that doesn't feel threatening. So you get to react and be angry, be abusive, be violent, even, but you don't risk significant consequences." (Episode 4)

"- Denial, displacement, projection." (Episode 4)

" - But see, I wanted something better. Something better for him. For all of them." (Episode 4)

"- A trait of mine that seemed to skip them somehow... sublimation. That is something that is one of the few coping mechanisms that's considered positive. Sublimation is when a person chooses to redirect strong emotions into an object or an activity that's appropriate and safe. So, instead of lashing out at your employees, you pour your energy into kickbox..." (Episode 4)

"- You drive a car like that, you make a statement. About who you are, where you're going, and how you get there." (Episode 4)

"- Now, let's get a drink, huh? It's gotta be noon somewhere." (Roderick - Episode 4)

"- Something in coke for you? You don't want the designer stuff. It's too dangerous." (Leo - Episode 4)

"- Are you mistaking me for a civilian? I'm not a fucking civilian." (Frederik - Episode 4)

"- You're not who I thought you were. Smart girls are only sex until they don't wanna fuck you, and then they're competition, and then what do you do? You take them down a peg." (Episode 5)

"- It's an opportunity. He's underestimated you. That's a gift. A failure of imagination. He sees you as formidable, he locks down, closes ranks, shuts the doors, battens the hatches. You are a face, you're not a mouthpiece, so just smile and shut the fuck up." (Episode 5)

"- Look, I'm shit at preambles. I made a life by getting to the point, so..." (Episode 5)

"- Why is this happening? - Life is insane. It is madness. The sooner you understand that, the better off you'll be." (Episode 6)

"- Reality's not what it used to be. All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream. For example.... As those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night. (Roderick) - Grandpa, are you okay? (Lenore) - I am. I'm fine. I'm just... It's been quite a week." (Roderick - Episode 6)

"- Men have called me mad But the question is not yet settled. As to whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence." (Episode 6)

"- Shut your mouth, get your shit together. The fuck is wrong with you?" (Episode 6)

"- I don't know anything about anything." (Episode 6)

"- Men are as stupid as they are simple. You're better off. Oh, my God, my first husband. I thought I missed him, but that was just this temporary insanity. This burp your heart goes through. He was fun to ride. Boy. Men, when they think they're immortal, all they want to do is fuck. When they figure out they're going to die, all they want to do is fuck. (Madeline - Episode 6)

"- You don't have to be a tyrant, but if you don't want to be consistently cruel, then you have to be sufficiently brutal at least once to establish authority." (Episode 7)

"- Everything has a price. Every negotiation's a point of entry. Every deal is simply an expression of will. Mutual will." (Episode 7)

"- You're a collection of impeccable, elaborate masks in orbit of a stunted heart. And I understand. You find an adversary, you kill them. You find a hurdle, you jump it or dismantle it. You find a locked door, you pry it open." (Episode 7)

"- Don't be stupid. Can you imagine what that would look like? My own wife trying to get off my own drug. It's a PR nightmare." (Roderick - Episode 7)

"- All soaked with feelings of absolute desperation and dread." (Episode 7)

"- Basically, the closest analogy I can think of is a fish being pulled out of water, only at least the fish gets to die." (Roderick - Episode 7)

"- So, I will take there years of hell over a lifetime with you." (Juno - Episode 7)

"- He and I share that as well. We both understand that... language in its highest expression is musical. What's a poem, after all, if not a safe space for a difficult truth. So there is a limit. (Verna) - No, it's not a limit, it's a standard." (Episode 8)

"- I don't want it, any of it, if it involves serving at some man's pleasure." (Madeline - Episode 8)

"- One of my favorite things about human beings. Starvation, poverty, disease, you could fix all that, just with money. But everyone loves something. And that love there's collateral. (Verna) - No. I have no collateral. Collateral is leverage. And I won't be leveraged. No man or woman has leveraged me in 70 years of life. And I'm not going to cede that ground, not this close to the end." (Arthur Pym - Episode 8)

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spiderliliez · 7 months

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Verna and Madeline on New Year’s Eve, 1980 THE FALL OF THE HOUSE OF USHER (2023) [+] CARLA GUGINO 🥀 [+] LGBTQ 🏳️‍🌈 [+] ..more on “The Fall of the House of Usher”

#The Fall of the House of Usher #Carla Gugino #Willa Fitzgerald #Verna #Madeline Usher #TFOTHOU #Mike Flanagan #Edgar Allan Poe #Quotes

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frootlooppoptarts · 6 months

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I am reduced to a thing that wants

#the fall of the house of usher #tfothou #madeline usher #verna #the raven #carla gugino #willa fitzgerald #the fall of the house of usher s01e5 #the tell-tale heart #madeline usher x death #madeline usher x verna #flptgifs #quote from a letter from virginia woolf to vita sackville-west

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whitestnoise · 7 months

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#the fall of the house of usher #mike flanagan #tfothou #tfothouedit #flanaverse #(mine)#(i was looking for a generic gif set to put my little thoughties in the tags but there aren't any???)#(or not yet maybe??? hrmpff so i'll do it myself then!)#it really is becoming a flanaverse - again there were little things and phrasings carried over from the other shows #i can only remember the carcass of a house right now but there were more #i can't wait to see everybody's little posts and theories and comparisons!!! 😻#what i haven't seen yet and will come up probably is the angle of the opiod epidemic #some speeches sounded like they came right our of the other netflix series painkiller #which makes me think those quotes might be verbatim lifted from real life although they are so out there that they sound made up (?)#i don't know enough about it but it struck me as too much of a coincidence #spoilers

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horror-aesthete · 5 months

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The Fall of the House of Usher, 2023, dir. Michael Fimognari

SE01E04 The Black Cat

#horror aesthetic #horror tv #horror quotes #the fall of the house of usher

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yurtletheturtlehenderson · 7 months

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"An idea is a fart your brain makes"

#another classic flanaverse quote for the books #yurtle watches #the fall of the house of usher #tfothou #mike flanagan #house of usher #house of usher spoilers

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belovedapollo · 6 months

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— What Moves The Dead by T. Kingfisher

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smallceremoniesofmine · 5 months

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The Fall of the House of Usher (2023)

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diamantdog · 7 months

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”you are so small.” — annabel lee to madeline usher in the fall of the house of usher and also me to my dog

#the fall of the house of usher #i’m sorry for how dumb this is but i literally just said this to my >30kg doggo and then i remembered that it was also a quote from the sho #mike flanagan #house of usher #dogblr #dog #show: the fall of the house of usher #flanaverse #tfothou

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enigma-the-mysterious · 7 months

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The Red Death really said "fuck rich people. the waitstaff and the bouncers though, they can leave"

#only on second episode but oh god #i predicted the death by chemical burns 30 minutes ago #and the sprinklers pouring those chemicals 10 minutes ago #but fuck did the last 2 minutes still send a chill #that was BRUTAL #the fall of the house of usher #original post #not incorrect quotes #lol

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silveragelovechild · 7 months

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“The algorithm’s going to worm it way through the internet and it’s going to grab anything it can. Your Facebook, your Instagram, your profile, your posts, your email micro data. (And then if makes another you) an AI approximation… a virtual you that thinks like you, talks like you, is you…. The ancients, they all wanted to live after they died, well, everyone does.”

Madeline Usher (Mary McDonnell) in “The Fall of the House of Usher” Episode 1

McDonnell also starred in “Battlestar Galactica” which was about AI’s destruction of Humanity. By AI, I’m referring to the Cylons. The prequel series (“Caprica”) revealed the origin of the Cylons - it was a process incredibly similar to Madeline Usher’s description above.

#netflix #the fall of the house of usher #Edgar alllen Poe #madeline usher #Mary McDonnell #battlestar galactica #Cylons #creation of AI #quote

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spiderliliez · 7 months

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Yes, I know who you are. And were. And who you could have been... [+] CARLA GUGINO 🥀 [+] ..more on “The Fall of the House of Usher” 🎬

#The Fall of the House of Usher #TFOTHOU #Mike Flanagan #Carla Gugino #Mary McDonnell #Verna #Madeline Usher #Edgar Allan Poe #Quotes

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frootlooppoptarts · 6 months

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Sweet Helen, make me immortal with a kiss. Her lips suck forth my soul: see, where it flies!— Come, Helen, come, give me my soul again. Here will I dwell, for heaven is in these lips, And all is dross that is not Helena.

#flptgifs #the fall of the house of usher #the fall of the house of usher s01e05 #the tell-tale heart #madeline usher #verna #madeline usher x verna #madeline usher x death #carla gugino #willa fitzgerald #quote from christopher marlowe's faustus

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cerayanay · 7 months

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Wishing I lived in the Mike Flannigan ‘Fall of the House of Usher’ fantasy world where we can expect the entire Trump lineage to die violently in rapid succession in the next few years

#when verna said ‘like one of my clients said I can shoot someone on 6th ave and get away with it’#that’s a trump quote #fall of the house of usher #fothou

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horror-aesthete · 5 months

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