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Life goes on. It doesn't go on. Yes, yes, I know, all we want in the end, we living, breathing creatures (am I still one of them?) is life. All we want to believe in is the persistence and vitality of life. Faced with the choice between death and the merest hint of life, what scrap, what token wouldn't we cling to in order to keep that belief? A leaf? A single moist, green leaf? That will do, that will be enough. Graham Swift
Charles Olson quote: "O.K. I'm running out of appetite. Let this swir? a bit like..."
O.K. I'm running out of appetite. Let this swir? a bit like Crab Nebul? do for now. Charles Olson
Rosa Parks quote: "Arrest me for sitting on a bus? You may do that."
Arrest me for sitting on a bus? You may do that. Rosa Parks
The wise do not argue therefrom, that the desires of the woman, as long as she is young and strong, are not as real and urgent of those of the man. Richard Francis Burton
Napolean Hill quote: "Adversity will do something too you or for you......."
Adversity will do something too you or for you....... Napolean Hill
Rumi quote: "Put your thoughts to sleep, do not let them cast a shadowover..."
Put your thoughts to sleep, do not let them cast a shadowover the moon of your heart. Let go of thinking. Rumi
A poem is a fictional, verbally inventive moral statement in which it is the author, rather than the printer or word processor, who decides where the lines should end. This dreary-sounding definition, unpoetic to a fault, may well turn out to be the best we can do. Terry Eagleton
He's one of those smart, drifty young people who, after certain deliberations, decides he wants to do Something in the Arts but won't, possibly can't, think in terms of an actual job; who seems to imagine that youth and brains and willingness will simply summon an occupation, the precise and perfect nature of which will reveal itself in its own time. Michael Cunningham
Be not deceived, Wormwood, our cause is never more in jeopardy than when a human, no longer desiring but still intending to do our Enemy's will, looks round upon a universe in which every trace of Him seems to have vanished, and asks why he has been forsaken, and still obeys. C. S. Lewis
Paul Auster quote: "To leave the world a little better than you found it. That's..."
To leave the world a little better than you found it. That's the best a man can ever do. Paul Auster
Please, I begged silently, please do not let my last moments on earth be me crammed into a tiny boat in the dark, surrounded by mechanical singing pirates. James Patterson
I don't know whether this world has a meaning that transcends it. But I know that I do not know that meaning and that it is impossible for me just now to know it. What can a meaning outside my condition mean to me? I can understand only in human terms. What I touch, what resists me--that is what I understand. And these two certainties--my appetite for the absolute and for unity and the impossibility of reducing this world to a rational and reasonable principle--I also know that I cannot... Albert Camus
One of the chief things which my typical man has to learn is that the mental faculties are capable of a continuous hard activity; they do not tire like an arm or a leg. All they want is change - not rest, except in sleep. Arnold Bennett
Male fantasies, male fantasies, is everything run by male fantasies? Up on a pedestal or down on your knees, it's all a male fantasy: that you're strong enough to take what they dish out, or else too weak to do anything about it. Even pretending you aren't catering to male fantasies is a male fantasy: pretending you're unseen, pretending you have a life of your own, that you can wash your feet and comb your hair unconscious of the ever-present watcher peering through the keyhole, peering... Margaret Atwood
Chuck Palahniuk quote: "Its only after you've lost everything," Tyler says, "that..."
Its only after you've lost everything," Tyler says, "that you're free to do anything. Chuck Palahniuk

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