Famous Quotes Ipsum

The way i see it, the men that i'm with, whoever they are, it's like look, you have to accept that i like ice cream, and i know it shows up on my hips but if you can't accept that, then leave. go away. toodles. it is non-negotiable. an illiterate underbred book . . . the book of a self-taught working man . . . egotistic, insistent, raw, striking, and ultimately nauseating. personally, i would sooner have written alice in wonderland than the whole encyclopedia britannica. either you think, or else others have to think for you and take power from you, pervert and discipline your natural tastes, civilize and sterilize you. her guilty conscience was as vague as original sin. besides, i didn't have anything to fear anymore. maybe all post-suicidals feel that way. it's really great - it gives you a real sense of, not bravery exactly, and not recklessness, quite, but something in between the two. if i'd survived my own best attempts at dying, it probably just wasn't in the cards for me to perish young. it's awfully hard to be b-b-brave when you are only a very small animal. from my rotting body, flowers shall grow and i am in them and that is eternity. i look upon death to be as necessary to the constitution as sleep. we shall rise again refreshed in the morning. i'll pretend this is real / 'cause this is what i like best surely a king who loves pleasure is less dangerous than one who loves glory. little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune, but great minds rise above it. the universe is made of stories, not atoms. but you will,' the queen said, 'if you don't make a memorandum of it.'</p> there i am in younger days, stargazing / painting picture perfect maps / of how my life and love would be / not counting the unmarked paths / of misdirection / my compass, faith in love's perfection / i missed ten million miles of road / i should have seen thoreau once said most men lead lives of quiet desperation... don't be resigned to that. live life! both my wife and daughter think i'm this gigantic loser and they're right.

The blood jet is poetry, there is no stopping it. tomboy. alright, call me a tomboy. tomboys get medals. tomboys win championships. tomboys can fly. oh, and tomboys aren't boys. hell has no fury like women's fury. on the surface, an intelligible lie; underneath, the unintelligible truth. my understanding of truth can change from day to day, and my commitment must be to truth rather than to consistency. spending time is inevitable. you're going to spend your time doing something. it might as well be something you want to do. one thing i've learned all these years is not to make love when you really don't feel it; there's probably nothing worse you can do to yourself than that. by all accounts, sex is a personally encoded communique, continually reinvented. anyone can look for fashion in a boutique or history in a museum. the creative explorer looks for history in a hardware store and fashion in an airport. there must be quite a few things a hot bath won't cure, but i don't know many of them. whenever i'm sad i'm going to die, or so nervous i can't sleep, or in love with somebody i won't be seeing for a week, i slump down just so far and then i say: 'i'll go take a hot bath.' the fear of death follows from the fear of life. a man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time. i look upon death to be as necessary to the constitution as sleep. we shall rise again refreshed in the morning. even for me life had its gleams of sunshine. how pleased can one sun setting make you if you humble yourself to it? how grateful can you really say that you are just to be here and live through it? we don't see things as they are - we see them as we are. in a cruel and imperfect world, she was living proof that god could still create perfection. i am young. i am younger each year at the first snow. when i see it, suddenly, in the air, all little and white and moving; then i am in love again and very young and i believe everything. christ is in the manger and santa in heaven. i preach there are all kinds of truths, your truth and somebody else's. but behind all of them there is only one truth and that is that there's no truth. you're all i notice in a crowded room. watching stars without you, my soul cries to conquer loneliness we shall each have to assume the sacred responsibility of becoming a complete person. and most of all, to define ourselves without always including someone else in the definition. i always thought of myself as a house. i was always what i lived in. it didn't need to be big. it didn't even need to be beautiful. it just needed to be mine. i became what i was meant to be. i built myself a life. i built myself a house..

Imagination is more powerful than knowledge. i saw the angel in the marble and carved until i set him free. i don't want my hair cut! i don't want my eyebrows up or down. i want them right where they are! i'm leaving now, and if anyone so much as makes a move to stop me, there'll be plenty of hair cut and it won't be mine! once you are real you can't be ugly, except to people who don't understand. the one way of tolerating existence is to lose oneself in literature as in a perpetual orgy. truth indeed rather alleviates than hurts, and will always bear up against falsehood, as oil does above water. truth is a deep kindness that teaches us to be content in our everyday life and share with the people the same happiness. everytime you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing. the greatest complexity is the greatest simplicity. the more "complex" a system is, the more simple is its design. indeed, it is utterly elegant in its simplicity. the master understands this. that is why a highly evolved being lives in utter simplicity. destiny is not what is already made; destiny is what we are making. many people think that we are in the hands of destiny, driven in whatever direction life desires or wills, but really, we are the masters of our destiny, especially from the moment we realize this fact. man is responsible for his rise and fall. what is a hero? primarily one who has conquered his fears. the cure for everything is salt water: sweat, tears, or the sea. it is not good for all our wishes to be fulfilled; through sickness we recognize the value of health; through evil, the value of good; through hunger, the value of food; through exertion, the value of rest. little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune, but great minds rise above it. the street corner where always, for years, in passing you felt, unexplained, a pang of despair, like nausea, till one night, late, late, on that spot you were struck, struck still, and again felt how her head had thrust to your shoulder. you'll remember me like a melody / yeah, i'll haunt the world inside you it is possible to live twenty-four hours a day in a state of love. every movement, every glance, every thought, and every word can be infused with love. no man's life is ordinary to himself. tereza knew what happens during the moment love is born: the woman cannot resist the voice calling forth her terrified soul; the man cannot resist the woman whose soul thus responds to his voice..