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Alfred Douglas quote: "Then sighing, said the other, 'Have thy will, I am the love..."
Then sighing, said the other, 'Have thy will, I am the love that dare not speak its name. Alfred Douglas
don't stop to think of the words when you do stop, just stop to think of the picture better-and let your mind off yourself in this work. Jack Kerouac
A moderately bad man knows he is not very good: a thoroughly bad man thinks he is alright. This is common sense really. You understand sleep when you are awake, not well you are sleeping. C. S. Lewis
But truth be told, I'm not as dour-looking as I would like. I'm stuck with this round, sweetie-pie face, tiny heart-shaped lips, the daintiest dimples, and apple cheeks so rosy I appear in a perpetual blush. At five foot four, I barely squeak by average height. And then there's my voice: straight out of second grade. I come across so young and innocent and harmless that I have been carded for buying maple syrup. Tourists feel more safe approaching me for directions, telemarketers always ask... Sarah Vowell
Once upon a time and a very good time it was there was a moocow coming down along the road and this moocow that was coming down along the road met a nicens little boy named baby tuckoo James Joyce
Pause you who read this, and think for a moment of the long chain of iron or gold, of thorns or flowers, that would never have bound you, but for the formation of the first link on one memorable day. Charles Dickens
You're better equipped for this world than I am," she said. "I'm always trying to change the world. You know how to live in it. Tom Robbins
Her chief dread in life, at this period of her development, was that she would appear narrow minded; what she feared next afterwards was that she should be so. Henry James
John Irving quote: "All men are liars, said Roberta Muldoon, who knew this was..."
All men are liars, said Roberta Muldoon, who knew this was true because she had once been a man. John Irving
Up till then he had been looking at the Lion's great front feet and the huge claws on them; now, in his despair, he looked up at its face. What he saw surprised him as much as anything in his whole life. For the tawny face was bent down near his own and (wonder of wonders) great shining tears stood in the Lion's eyes. They were such big, bright tears compared with Digory's own that for a moment he felt as if the Lion must really be sorrier about his Mother than he was himself. "My son, my... C. S. Lewis
Things men have made with wakened hands, and put soft life intoare awake through years with transferred touch, and go on glowingfor long years. And for this reason, some old things are lovelywarm still with the life of forgotten men who made them. David Herbert Lawrence
Better to be miserable with her than happy without her. Let our hearts break provided they break together. If the voice within us does not say this it is not the voice of Eros. C. S. Lewis
If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment. Marcus Aurelius
Ludwig Wittgenstein quote: "Suppose someone were to say: 'Imagine this butterfly exactly..."
Suppose someone were to say: 'Imagine this butterfly exactly as it is, but ugly instead of beautiful'?! Ludwig Wittgenstein
Most of us are called on to perform tasks far beyond what we can do. Our capabilities seldom match our aspirations, and we are often woefully unprepared. To this extent, we are all Assistant Pig-Keepers at heart. Lloyd Alexander

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