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"I wouldn't recommend sex, drugs or insanity for everyone, but they've always worked for me."
Hunter S. Thompson
"You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question."
Albert Camus
That gentlemen prefer blondes is due to the fact that, apparently, pale hair, delicate skin and an infantile expression represent the very apex of frailty which every man longs to violate.
- Alexander King
"...How poor in invention men are! They always think one commits suicide for a reason. But it's quite possible to commit suicide for two reasons. No, that never occurs to them. So what's the good of dying intentionally, of sacrificing yourself to the idea you want people to have of you? Once you are dead, they will take advantage of it to attribute idiotic and vulgar motives to your action."
Albert Camus
"It's hard to hold the hand of anyone who is reaching for the sky just to surrender."
Leonard Cohen
"Prayer is translation. A man translates himself into a child asking for all there is in a language he has barely mastered."
Leonard Cohen
"I spent my hatred every place
On every work, on every face
Someone gave me wishes
And I wished for an embrace."
Leonard Cohen
To laugh often and love much; to win the respect of intelligent persons and the affection of children; to earn the approbation of honest citizens and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty; to find the best in others; to give of one's self; to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; to have played and laughed with enthusiasm and sung with exultation; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived - this is to have succeeded.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Every day we slaughter our finest impulses. That is why we get a heart-ache when we read those lines written by the hand of a master and recognize them as our own, as the tender shoots which we stifled because we lacked the faith to believe in our own powers, our own criterion of truth and beauty. Every man, when he gets quiet, when he becomes desperately honest with himself, is capable of uttering profound truths. We all derive from the same source. There is no mystery about the origin of things. We are all part of creation, all kings, all poets, all musicians; we have only to open up, to discover what is already there."
Henry Miller, Sexus
By the time you swear you're his,
Shivering and sighing,
And he vows his passion is
Infinite, undying ---
Lady, make a note of this:
One of you is lying.
Dorothy Parker
A mind all logic is like a knife all blade.
It makes the hand bleed that uses it.
Rabrindranath Tagore
Let me not pray to be sheltered from dangers but to be fearless in facing them.
Let me not beg for the stilling of my pain but for the heart to conquer it.
Let me not crave in anxious fear to be saved but hope for the patience to win my freedom.
Grant that I may not be a coward,
But let me find the grasp of your hand in my failure.
Ibid.
We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the hateful words and actions of the bad people but for the appalling silence of the good people.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
More than any other time in history, mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness. The other to total extinction. Let us pray we have the wisdom to choose correctly.
Woody Allen (playwright, director, actor)
To love is to suffer. To avoid suffering one must not love. But then one suffers form not loving. Therefore, to love is to suffer; not to love is to suffer; to suffer is to suffer. To be happy is to love. To be happy, then, is to suffer, but suffering makes one unhappy. Therefore, to be happy one must love, or love to suffer or suffer from too much happiness. Are you getting this down?
Ibid.
Hate has a reason for everything.
But love is unreasonable.
V. Raiuhes Ahaefvthe
Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is writing a book.
Cicero
I do not believe that sex has an inherent power to transform the world. I do not believe that pleasure is always an anarchic force for good. I do not believe that we can fuck our way to freedom. But this is not what the discourse of sexual repression tells us. In that discourse, unleashed sex has enormous disruptive potential. Minority forms of sex have to be repressed or the social contract will hang in tatters. People will look to their friends and lovers for warmth instead of to their biological families. Women and children will have no protection from male violence. Work for the sake of work will cease to be valued. The nine-to-five, five-days-a-week wage labor that is the foundation of commerce will be disrupted by bored and frustrated workers who use any excuse to come in late, get high as often as possible to alleviate their tedium, rip off their employers, and spend their evenings trying to pick somebody up in a bar or going to political meetings organized by antisocial elements. Nobody will go to church. Children will be thoughtlessly conceived and carelessly reared, and venereal diseases will flourish.
This is, of course, in wild opposition to our present system.
Pat Califia, from the introduction to _Macho Sluts_
Friendship is a single soul, dwelling in two bodies.
Aristotle
Hold on to what is good,
even if it's a handful of earth.
Hold on to what you believe,
Even if it's a tree that stands by itself.
Hold on to what you must do,
Even if it's a long way from here.
Hold on to your life,
Even if it's easier to let go.
Hold on to my hand,
Even if I've gone away from you.
Pueblo poem
Before the beginning of great brilliance, there must be chaos.
I Ching
I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with typewriters.
Solomon Short
Life IS pain. Anyone who tells you otherwise is selling something.
Wesley, The Princess Bride
Life begets life. Energy creates energy.
It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich.
Sarah Bernhardt
So be it!
Pump Up the Volume
It was for such a time as this we were created.
It was for such a time as this that we were born and born again.
It was for such a time as this God has waited.....
It was for such a time as this and it's time to begin NOW!
Brent Holmes
