So I just wrote this graf for this Surfing with Mel thing, and I’m almost sure it’s mostly ripped off from somewhere. Help? [Language alert.]
Jesus, Joe, have you lost your nerve? You used to enjoy pissing people off. It was one of your strong points. Haven’t you lived long enough to know that if people don’t like you, you’re not ever going to make them like you? You can bend and bend and give and give until you’ve given your whole damn soul away and there’s nothing left of you but the lips you use to kiss their asses. And the best you can hope for is that they’ll stop telling people you’re an asshole. They might accept you, but they’ll never love you, and they’ll sure as fuck never respect you. Because by that point, you won’t be able to respect yourself. Stop trying to please the Jews, Joe. We’re not making this movie to please the Jews. If anything, we’re making this movie to convert them.
It’s what Cordelia tells her sisters in David Mamet’s King Lear adaptation.
I can live with that.
Seriously though, it does seem uncannily familiar, and I’m racking my brain to try to figure out who might have said something like this before.
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