"We are here to ruin ourselves and to break our hearts and love the wrong people and die. The storybooks are *bull*****. Now I want you to come upstairs with me and get in my bed!
-Moonstruck
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"We are here to ruin ourselves and to break our hearts and love the wrong people and die. The storybooks are *bull*****. Now I want you to come upstairs with me and get in my bed!
-Moonstruck
Flatter, and praise, commend, extol their graces;
... Say they have angels' faces.
That man that hath a tongue, I say, is no man,
If with his tongue he cannot win a woman.
- Shakespere
Two Gentlemen of Verona
"She would not say of any one in the world now that they were this or were that. She felt very young; at the same time unspeakably aged. She sliced like a knife through everything; at the same time was outside, looking on. She had a perpetual sense, as she watched the taxi cabs, of being out, out, far out to sea and alone; she always had the feeling that it was very, very dangerous to live even one day. Not that she thought herself clever, or much out of the ordinary. How she had got through life on the few twigs of knowledge Fräulein Daniels gave them she could not think. She knew nothing; no language, no history; she scarcely read a book now, except memoirs in bed; and yet to her it was absolutely absorbing; all this; the cabs passing; and she would not say of Peter, she would not say of herself, I am this, I am that."
:: Virginia Woolf: Mrs. Dalloway
I like this thread.
This one keeps me in check.
Guard you roving thoughts with a jealous care for speech is but the dialer of thoughts and every fool can plainly read in your words the hour of your thoughts. Alfred Lord Tennyson
"Doubt thou the stars are fire. Doubt that the sun doth move. Doubt truth to be a liar. But never doubt I love". ~ William Shakespeare in Hamlet, Act ii, Sc.2
"The unexamined Life is not worth living"
-Socrates
I think this is what every well rounded author does.... along with their readers.
Years ago, fairy tales all began with Once upon a time... now we know they all begin with, If I am elected.
-- Carolyn Warner
"There is nothing to fear but fear itself" Roosevelt
"You live inside somebody's body for a few years, you get used to it. I look at his face now. I can't tell what's going on. I'm not used to seeing his facial expressions. I'm used to feeling them." -Ender's Game
"I swear to God, I swear to Mao, I'll swear to anybody you like, I didn't know it spelled LSD"
-John Lennon, on his song Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds.
"I think it would be a good idea."
-Mahatma Gandhi, on western civilization.
"Hey Women! Leave your husbands, kill your children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism and become lesbians! It's fun!"Quote:
Originally Posted by genoveva
-Betty Friedan
"Free love? As if love is anything but free! Man has bought brains, but all the millions in the world have failed to buy love. Man has subdued bodies, but all the power on earth has been unable to subdue love. Man has conquered whole nations, but all his armies could not conquer love. Man has chained and fettered the spirit, but he has been utterly helpless before love. High on a throne, with all the splendor and pomp his gold can command, man is yet poor and desolate, if love passes him by. And if it stays, the poorest hovel is radiant with warmth, with life and color. Thus love has the magic power to make of a beggar a king. Yes, love is free; it can dwell in no other atmosphere."
-Emma Goldman in "Marriage and Love". Read the whole thing here.