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-- J.W. Lennon

"My karma was to be born in America where nobody has any fun or believes in anything, especially freedom."
-- Jack Kerouac

"Being a woman is hard work."

"You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats, so you can know who you are, what you can rise from, how you can still come out of it."

"There is nothing so pitiful as a young cynic because he has gone from knowing nothing to believing nothing. "

"Love is that condition in the human spirit so profound that it allows me to survive, and better than that, to thrive with passion, compassion, and style. "

"History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again."
--Maya Angelou

"I have the right to love many people at once and to change my prince often."

"We do not grow absolutely, chronologically. We grow sometimes in one dimension, and not in another, unevenly. We grow partially. We are relative. We are mature in one realm, childish in another."

"Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings."

"Eroticism is one of the basic means of self-knowledge, as indispensible as poetry."

"We write to taste life twice, in the moment, and in retrospection."

"Ordinary life does not interest me. I seek only the high moments. I am in accord with the surrealists, searching for the marvelous."

"We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are."
--Anais Nin

"Every night I cut out my heart; but every morning, it was full again."
--The English Patient

"The foolish reject what they see, not what they think;
The wise reject what they think, not what they see."
--Huang-Po

"The aim of living is life itself."
--Goethe

"Love isn't something like a grindstone that is the same thing everywhere and does the same thing to everything it touches. Love is like the sea. It's a moving thing, but still in all, it takes the shape of the shore it meets, and it's different with every shore."
-- Their Eyes Were Watching God, Zora Neale Hurston

"We take a handful of sand from the endless landscape of awareness around us and call that handful of sand the world."
-- Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, Robert M Pirsig

"Everybody is just a stranger but that's the danger in going my own way... I guess that's the price I have to pay."

"I'd like to think the best of me is still hiding up my sleeve.."

"If you want love, we'll make it . . . swim in a deep sea of blankets.."

"She keeps a toothbrush at my place, as if I had the extra space."
--John Mayer

"I dislike death, but there are things I dislike more than death; therefore, there are occasions were I will not avoid danger."
--Mencius

"He who saves one life saves the world entire."

" 'A one armed machinist, Oskar?'
'He was a metal press operator. Quite skilled.'"

"'How many cigarettes have you smoked tonight?'
'Too many.'
'For every one you smoke, I smoke half.'"
--- Schindler's List

"And here we are as on a darkling plain, Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight where ignorant armies clash by night."
--- Matthew Arnold, "Dover Beach"

"Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter; therefore, ye soft pipes, play on."
--- John Keats, "Ode on a Grecian Urn"

"Do I dare
Disturb the universe?
In a minute there is time
For decisions and revisions which a minute will
reverse."
--- T. S. Eliot, "The Love Song of J. Aflred Prufrock"

"and it makes me wonder......."
--- Led Zeppelin, "Stairway to Heaven"

"These woods are lovely, dark and deep
But I have promises to keep
And miles to go before I sleep
And miles to go before I sleep."
--- "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening"

"Two roads diverged in a wood and I, I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference."
--- Robert Frost, "The Road Not Taken"

"I feel better having screamed, don't you?"
--- Michael Stipe, REM, "Ignoreland"

"It is a far, far better thing that I do than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to than I have ever known."
--- Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities

"Let me explain things to you.... Mitchell's the man, I'm the idiot, you're the screw up, and we're all losers."

"Well Sinead O'Rebellion.... shock me shock me shock me with that deviant behavior."

"Oh now Debra, don't be bitter.... certainly with your ever growing collection of flesh mutilating silver appendages and your brand new neo Nazi boot camp makeover, the boys will come a-runnin'!!"

"Damn the man!"
--- Empire Records

"In the absence of love, there is nothing in this world worth fighting for."
--- Kevin Costner, The War

"I love this mansion, though it's too many windows to open halfway each morning
and close halfway each night."

"And that's good that there's rain
it clears the month of your sorry rainbow expressions
and it clears the streets of the silent armies....
so we can dance"

"Little kids shoot marbles
where branches break the sun into graceful shafts of light.
I just wanna be pure."
--- Jim Carroll

"She walks in beauty like the night."
--- Lord Byron

"The quality of mercy is not strained
it droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven."

"For in that sleep of death what dreams may come when we have shuffled off this mortal coil must give us pause..."

"The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers."
--- Shakespeare

"I dream, and my dreams are all broken
I love and my loving is vain
I speak but the words are all spoken
I look and see nothing but pain."
--- Louis L'Amour, "Life"

"[The guillotine] is not neutral, and it does not permit you to remain neutral."
--- Victor Hugo, Les Miserābles

"Would you mind translating that into Spanish?"
--- Bernardo, West Side Story

"Imagine no possessions.... I wonder if you can."

"I don't believe in Beatles, I just believe in me."

"Help! I need somebody!"

"I read the news today.... Oh, boy."

"All you need is love."
--- John Lennon

"Theirs not to make reply
Theirs not to reason why
Theirs but to do and die."
--- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, "Charge of the Light Brigade"

"They're sending me to Vietnam.... It's this whole other country."

"Now, for some reason I fit into the army like one of those round pegs... its not hard. All you have to do is keep your bed real neat and remember to stand up straight and answer every question with, 'Yes, Drill Sergeant.'"

"Goddamnit, Gump! You must be a goddamn genius. You must have a goddamned IQ of 160. You're goddamn gifted, Private Gump."

"He must be the stupidest son of a bitch alive... but he sure is fast."

" 'I'm going to heaven, Lieutenant Dan.'
'Oh, really? Well, before you go, do you think you could get your ass down to the store and get us another bottle?' "
---Forrest Gump

"Oh the humanity!"
--- commentary on the crash of the Hindenburg

"It has been my privilege, sir, to see the best of England within these very walls."
--- The Remains of the Day

"Of all the lessons in life that I've learned the hard way, the ones involving frontal nudity and hot bacon grease seem to be the most enduring".
--contributed by Cosmic_Velveeta

"Don't accept rides from strange men. And remember that all men are as strange as hell."
--Robin Morgan

"Stress: that confusion created when one's mind overrides the body's desire to choke the living shit out of some asshole who desperately needs it."
--contributed by Vixen66

"You're just a pussy cat....lazy, highly intelligent, and totally cuddly. Yes, you were a kitty in another life." -- KnowerofKnada (about me!)

"You are the only person who could meet a Republican hippie from Columbus, OH." -- Carroll

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