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By (user no longer on site) OP over a year ago

Was re-reading Under Milk Wood by Dylan Thomas and indulging in some of my favourite literary phrases from it:

"It is spring, moonless night in the small town, starless and bible-black, the cobbledstreets silent and the hunched courters'-and-rabbits' wood limping invisible down to the sloeblack, slow, black, crowblack, fishingboat-bobbing sea."

and

"The only sea I saw was the seesaw sea with you riding on it. Lie down, lie easy. Let me shipwreck in your thighs."

Do you have sentences, paragraphs or phrases from books that particularly sparkle for you?

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By *igeiaWoman over a year ago

Bristol

Loads! And some song lyrics too. I studied French lit for a while and 20+ years later I can still recite some of the sphinx's speech from La Machine Infernale despite never having tried to memorise it because it is just so good. Iain (M) Banks is another favourite as well.

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By *igeiaWoman over a year ago

Bristol

Oh, and WB Yeats. And Sylvia Plath.

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

'The more that you read, the more you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.'

with the caveat that he also wrote:

'It is better to know how to learn than to know.'

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By (user no longer on site) OP over a year ago

"Loads! And some song lyrics too. I studied French lit for a while and 20+ years later I can still recite some of the sphinx's speech from La Machine Infernale despite never having tried to memorise it because it is just so good. Iain (M) Banks is another favourite as well."

"Truth, I have learned, differs for everybody. Just as no two people ever see a rainbow in exactly the same place - and yet both most certainly see it, while the person seemingly standing right underneath it does not see it at all - so truth is a question of where one stands, and the direction one is looking in at the time."

Inversions -- I(M)B

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By (user no longer on site) OP over a year ago

"'The more that you read, the more you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.'

with the caveat that he also wrote:

'It is better to know how to learn than to know.'"

Dr Seuss

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

“There are three things all wise men fear: the sea in storm, a night with no moon, and the anger of a gentle man.”

? Patrick Rothfuss, The Wise Man's Fear

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

"'The more that you read, the more you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.'

with the caveat that he also wrote:

'It is better to know how to learn than to know.'

Dr Seuss

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

“Anyone can love a thing because. That's as easy as putting a penny in your pocket.

But to love something despite. To know the flaws and love them too. That is rare and pure and perfect.”

? Patrick Rothfuss, The Wise Man's Fear

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By *igeiaWoman over a year ago

Bristol

"He lay, often, looking at her sleeping face in the new light that fell in through the open walls of the strange house, and he stared at her skin and hair with his mouth open, transfixed by the quick stillness of her, struck dumb with the physical fact of her existence as though she was some careless star-thing that slept on quite unaware of its incandescent power; the casualness and ease with which she slept there amazed him; he couldn't believe that such beauty could survive without some superhumanly intense conscious effort."

Use of Weapons, Iain M Banks

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By (user no longer on site) OP over a year ago

"“There are three things all wise men fear: the sea in storm, a night with no moon, and the anger of a gentle man.”

? Patrick Rothfuss, The Wise Man's Fear"

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By (user no longer on site) OP over a year ago

"“Anyone can love a thing because. That's as easy as putting a penny in your pocket.

But to love something despite. To know the flaws and love them too. That is rare and pure and perfect.”

? Patrick Rothfuss, The Wise Man's Fear"

Beautiful.

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By (user no longer on site) OP over a year ago

""He lay, often, looking at her sleeping face in the new light that fell in through the open walls of the strange house, and he stared at her skin and hair with his mouth open, transfixed by the quick stillness of her, struck dumb with the physical fact of her existence as though she was some careless star-thing that slept on quite unaware of its incandescent power; the casualness and ease with which she slept there amazed him; he couldn't believe that such beauty could survive without some superhumanly intense conscious effort."

Use of Weapons, Iain M Banks"

Oh!

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By (user no longer on site) OP over a year ago

"Oh, and WB Yeats. And Sylvia Plath."

"I thought the most beautiful thing in the world must be shadow, the million moving shapes and cul-de-sacs of shadow. There was shadow in bureau drawers and closets and suitcases, and shadow under houses and trees and stones, and shadow at the back of people's eyes and smiles, and shadow, miles and miles and miles of it, on the night side of the earth."

Sylvia Plath -- The Bell Jar

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

The real Byronic hero, the true romantic is incapable of love, or capable only of an impossible love, suffers endlessly. He is solitary, languid, his condition exhausts him. If he wants to feel alive, it must be in the terrible exaltation of a brief and destructive action.

Albert Camus, The Stranger

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

Under Milk wood is a vibrantly written picture of ordinary people - I love Richard Burton's reading of it and have gone to sleep on so many nights just listening to him, to the lovely words...

So many lines from Shakespeare wander around the backstreets of my mind - amongst quotations from Houseman, Byron, Keats and so many others

Bright silvered riches committed to memory - held in quiet places to bring out and give flavour to bright-rimmed days...

Our language is so wonderfully expressive - it is our heritage - a pride of our identity.

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By (user no longer on site) OP over a year ago

"The real Byronic hero, the true romantic is incapable of love, or capable only of an impossible love, suffers endlessly. He is solitary, languid, his condition exhausts him. If he wants to feel alive, it must be in the terrible exaltation of a brief and destructive action.

Albert Camus, The Stranger

Heartbreaking.

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

To see a world in a grain of sand and heaven in a wild flower. Hold infinity in the palm of your hand and eternity in an hour.

- William Blake 'Augeries of Innocence'

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By (user no longer on site) OP over a year ago

"Under Milk wood is a vibrantly written picture of ordinary people - I love Richard Burton's reading of it and have gone to sleep on so many nights just listening to him, to the lovely words...

So many lines from Shakespeare wander around the backstreets of my mind - amongst quotations from Houseman, Byron, Keats and so many others

Bright silvered riches committed to memory - held in quiet places to bring out and give flavour to bright-rimmed days...

Our language is so wonderfully expressive - it is our heritage - a pride of our identity.

You're so right!!

I have the Richard Burton version on audio and I do the same thing, have him send me to sleep. My other drift off to sleep audio is Simon Armitage's Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. It's magical!

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By (user no longer on site) OP over a year ago

"To see a world in a grain of sand and heaven in a wild flower. Hold infinity in the palm of your hand and eternity in an hour.

- William Blake 'Augeries of Innocence'"

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By *oncupiscentTonyMan over a year ago

Kent

"But my body was like a harp and her words and gestures were like fingers running upon the wires, shaking like a shitting dog"

James Joyce

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

Shit don't mean shit

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

Not really an unusual one, but I've always remembered this speech from Macbeth since we did it at school in about Year 9.

Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow,

Creeps in this petty pace from day to day,

To the last syllable of recorded time;

And all our yesterdays have lighted fools

The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!

Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player,

That struts and frets his hour upon the stage,

And then is heard no more. It is a tale

Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,

Signifying nothing.

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By *inky-MinxWoman over a year ago

Grantham

I'm so uncultured

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

"Under Milk wood is a vibrantly written picture of ordinary people - I love Richard Burton's reading of it and have gone to sleep on so many nights just listening to him, to the lovely words...

So many lines from Shakespeare wander around the backstreets of my mind - amongst quotations from Houseman, Byron, Keats and so many others

Bright silvered riches committed to memory - held in quiet places to bring out and give flavour to bright-rimmed days...

Our language is so wonderfully expressive - it is our heritage - a pride of our identity.

You're so right!!

I have the Richard Burton version on audio and I do the same thing, have him send me to sleep. My other drift off to sleep audio is Simon Armitage's Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. It's magical!"

What a voice. My only claim to fame being that we, and Sir Anthony Hopkins, are from the same town.

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

William Blake 'Night'

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By (user no longer on site) OP over a year ago

""But my body was like a harp and her words and gestures were like fingers running upon the wires, shaking like a shitting dog"

James Joyce"

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By (user no longer on site) OP over a year ago

"Shit don't mean shit "

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By (user no longer on site) OP over a year ago

"Not really an unusual one, but I've always remembered this speech from Macbeth since we did it at school in about Year 9.

Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow,

Creeps in this petty pace from day to day,

To the last syllable of recorded time;

And all our yesterdays have lighted fools

The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!

Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player,

That struts and frets his hour upon the stage,

And then is heard no more. It is a tale

Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,

Signifying nothing."

That takes me straight back to school too!

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

"Not really an unusual one, but I've always remembered this speech from Macbeth since we did it at school in about Year 9.

Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow,

Creeps in this petty pace from day to day,

To the last syllable of recorded time;

And all our yesterdays have lighted fools

The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!

Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player,

That struts and frets his hour upon the stage,

And then is heard no more. It is a tale

Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,

Signifying nothing."

Watching Patrick Stewart make this speech was just amazing! Watching him do any Shakespeare though is mesmerising!

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By (user no longer on site) OP over a year ago

"I'm so uncultured

It's fun to get other people to read to you, live vicariously through their "culture" -- although quite honestly, what's cultured and what isn't?!

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By (user no longer on site) OP over a year ago

"Under Milk wood is a vibrantly written picture of ordinary people - I love Richard Burton's reading of it and have gone to sleep on so many nights just listening to him, to the lovely words...

So many lines from Shakespeare wander around the backstreets of my mind - amongst quotations from Houseman, Byron, Keats and so many others

Bright silvered riches committed to memory - held in quiet places to bring out and give flavour to bright-rimmed days...

Our language is so wonderfully expressive - it is our heritage - a pride of our identity.

You're so right!!

I have the Richard Burton version on audio and I do the same thing, have him send me to sleep. My other drift off to sleep audio is Simon Armitage's Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. It's magical!

What a voice. My only claim to fame being that we, and Sir Anthony Hopkins, are from the same town."

Can you introduce me?!

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By (user no longer on site) OP over a year ago

"From an early age she had developed the art of being alone and generally preferred her own company to anyone else’s. She read books at enormous speed and judged them entirely on her ability to remove her from her material surroundings. In almost all the unhappiest days of her life she had been able to escape from her own inner world by living temporarily in someone else’s, and on the two or three occasions that she had been too upset to concentrate she had been desolate."

Sebastian Faulks -- The Girl at the Lion d'Or

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By *onny MCMan over a year ago

Crawley

"I'm so uncultured

Bet there's a load of modern movie quotes or pop lyrics you could throw in here and have just as much emotional impact as the classic poetry.

The source isn't important if it still brings that lump to your throat and a tear to your eye. Adam Duritz's lyrics and delivery do that to me every time.

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By (user no longer on site) OP over a year ago

"William Blake 'Night'

"The sun descending in the west,

The evening star does shine;

The birds are silent in their nest.

And I must seek for mine.

The moon, like a flower

In heaven's high bower,

With silent delight

Sits and smiles on the night."

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

"Under Milk wood is a vibrantly written picture of ordinary people - I love Richard Burton's reading of it and have gone to sleep on so many nights just listening to him, to the lovely words...

So many lines from Shakespeare wander around the backstreets of my mind - amongst quotations from Houseman, Byron, Keats and so many others

Bright silvered riches committed to memory - held in quiet places to bring out and give flavour to bright-rimmed days...

Our language is so wonderfully expressive - it is our heritage - a pride of our identity.

You're so right!!

I have the Richard Burton version on audio and I do the same thing, have him send me to sleep. My other drift off to sleep audio is Simon Armitage's Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. It's magical!

What a voice. My only claim to fame being that we, and Sir Anthony Hopkins, are from the same town.

Can you introduce me?!

Oh and Michael Sheen. More chance of introducing you to him

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By (user no longer on site) OP over a year ago

"I'm so uncultured

Bet there's a load of modern movie quotes or pop lyrics you could throw in here and have just as much emotional impact as the classic poetry.

The source isn't important if it still brings that lump to your throat and a tear to your eye. Adam Duritz's lyrics and delivery do that to me every time."

Well said!

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By (user no longer on site) OP over a year ago

"Under Milk wood is a vibrantly written picture of ordinary people - I love Richard Burton's reading of it and have gone to sleep on so many nights just listening to him, to the lovely words...

So many lines from Shakespeare wander around the backstreets of my mind - amongst quotations from Houseman, Byron, Keats and so many others

Bright silvered riches committed to memory - held in quiet places to bring out and give flavour to bright-rimmed days...

Our language is so wonderfully expressive - it is our heritage - a pride of our identity.

You're so right!!

I have the Richard Burton version on audio and I do the same thing, have him send me to sleep. My other drift off to sleep audio is Simon Armitage's Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. It's magical!

What a voice. My only claim to fame being that we, and Sir Anthony Hopkins, are from the same town.

Can you introduce me?!

Oh and Michael Sheen. More chance of introducing you to him"

I have a massive crush on Michael Sheen!

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By *inky-MinxWoman over a year ago

Grantham

"I'm so uncultured

It's fun to get other people to read to you, live vicariously through their "culture" -- although quite honestly, what's cultured and what isn't?!

I don't like Shakespear

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By *onny MCMan over a year ago

Crawley

"I'm so uncultured

Bet there's a load of modern movie quotes or pop lyrics you could throw in here and have just as much emotional impact as the classic poetry.

The source isn't important if it still brings that lump to your throat and a tear to your eye. Adam Duritz's lyrics and delivery do that to me every time.

Well said! "

Thank you.

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By (user no longer on site) OP over a year ago

"I'm so uncultured

It's fun to get other people to read to you, live vicariously through their "culture" -- although quite honestly, what's cultured and what isn't?!

I don't like Shakespear

Then ignore him! Or does he keep PM-img and winking at you?

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

The first book that truly startled me and made me realise the immense power of literature was Henry Miller's Tropic of Cancer (ok, it may have been The Rachel Papers by Martin Amis but we'll gloss over that - it was mainly teenage wank fodder)

(Miller writes

This is not a book in the ordinary sense of the word. No, this is a prolonged insult, a gob of spit in the face of art, a kick in the pants to God, Man, Destiny, Time, Love, Beauty... what you will.

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By *inky-MinxWoman over a year ago

Grantham

"I'm so uncultured

Bet there's a load of modern movie quotes or pop lyrics you could throw in here and have just as much emotional impact as the classic poetry.

The source isn't important if it still brings that lump to your throat and a tear to your eye. Adam Duritz's lyrics and delivery do that to me every time."

That's just it, I don't remember quotes from films, books or even songs it seems :-/

I remember lyrics as a song is played but not in such a way that I can quote them really.

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

"Was re-reading Under Milk Wood by Dylan Thomas and indulging in some of my favourite literary phrases from it:

and

"The only sea I saw was the seesaw sea with you riding on it. Lie down, lie easy. Let me shipwreck in your thighs."

Do you have sentences, paragraphs or phrases from books that particularly sparkle for you? "

You need to listen to it!

There are two audio play versions, one with Richard Burton narrating and one with Anthony Hopkins, if I recall correctly! (Google is your friend here)

That passage is amazing when brought to life by either of these amazing voices xx

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By *inky-MinxWoman over a year ago

Grantham

"I'm so uncultured

It's fun to get other people to read to you, live vicariously through their "culture" -- although quite honestly, what's cultured and what isn't?!

I don't like Shakespear

Then ignore him! Or does he keep PM-img and winking at you?"

I've blocked him

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

"Under Milk wood is a vibrantly written picture of ordinary people - I love Richard Burton's reading of it and have gone to sleep on so many nights just listening to him, to the lovely words...

So many lines from Shakespeare wander around the backstreets of my mind - amongst quotations from Houseman, Byron, Keats and so many others

Bright silvered riches committed to memory - held in quiet places to bring out and give flavour to bright-rimmed days...

Our language is so wonderfully expressive - it is our heritage - a pride of our identity.

You're so right!!

I have the Richard Burton version on audio and I do the same thing, have him send me to sleep. My other drift off to sleep audio is Simon Armitage's Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. It's magical!"

I had the RB version years ago on cassette. I used to play it night after night! Wonderful memories

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By *igeiaWoman over a year ago

Bristol

I'm your little scarlet starlet singing in the garden. Kiss me on my open mouth.

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.”

- Marianne Williamson, "A Return To Love: Reflections on the Principles of A Course in Miracles "

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By (user no longer on site) OP over a year ago

"Let me tell you something about her. It’s that middle stretch of the night, when the curtains leak no light, the only street-noise is the grizzle of a returning Romeo, and the birds haven’t begun their routine yet cheering business. She’s lying on her side, turned away from me. I can’t see her in the dark, but from the hushed swell of her breathing I could draw you the map of her body. When she’s happy she can sleep for hours in the same position. I’ve watched over her in all those sewery parts of the night, and can testify that she doesn’t move. It could be just down to good digestion and calm dreams, of course; but I take it as a sign of happiness..........

...............Anyway ... she’s asleep, turned away from me on her side. The usual stratagems and repositionings have failed to induce narcosis in me, so I decide to settle myself against the soft zigzag of her body. As I move and start to nestle my shin against a calf whose muscles are loosened by sleep, she senses what I’m doing, and without waking reaches up with her left hand and pulls the hair o her shoulders on to the top of her head, leaving me her bare nape to nestle in. Each time she does this I feel a shudder of love at the exactness of this sleeping courtesy. My eyes prickle with tears, and I have to stop myself from waking her up to remind her of my love. At that moment, unconsciously, she’s touched some secret fulcrum of my feelings for her. She doesn’t know, of course; I’ve never told her of this tiny, precise pleasure of the night. Though I’m telling her now, I suppose ..."

Julian Barnes -- A History of the World in 10½ Chapters

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By *obwithkiltMan over a year ago

Belton

"when routine bites hard,and ambitions are low

and resentment rides high but emotions wont grow

and we are changing our ways, taking different roads

then love,love will tear us apart again"

Ian Curtis

Hearing Hooky bring the bass line in sets hairs on me on end every time I hear him play it live.....earlier this year he just stood as 3000+ people just sang it to him...it was breathtaking

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By (user no longer on site) OP over a year ago

"The first book that truly startled me and made me realise the immense power of literature was Henry Miller's Tropic of Cancer (ok, it may have been The Rachel Papers by Martin Amis but we'll gloss over that - it was mainly teenage wank fodder)

(Miller writes

This is not a book in the ordinary sense of the word. No, this is a prolonged insult, a gob of spit in the face of art, a kick in the pants to God, Man, Destiny, Time, Love, Beauty... what you will.

(I also have The Rachel Papers

)

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By (user no longer on site) OP over a year ago

"Was re-reading Under Milk Wood by Dylan Thomas and indulging in some of my favourite literary phrases from it:

and

"The only sea I saw was the seesaw sea with you riding on it. Lie down, lie easy. Let me shipwreck in your thighs."

Do you have sentences, paragraphs or phrases from books that particularly sparkle for you?

You need to listen to it!

There are two audio play versions, one with Richard Burton narrating and one with Anthony Hopkins, if I recall correctly! (Google is your friend here)

That passage is amazing when brought to life by either of these amazing voices xx"

I have the RB one!!

Also there was a brilliant BBC production of it with Tom Jones as Captain Cat and a whole array of brilliant Welsh casting.

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

"I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain."

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By *ods_Perfect_IdiotMan over a year ago

Manchester

Anything from Alex Turner

'The way you keep me in pursuit,

Sharpen the heel of your boot,

And you press it to my chest and you make me wheeze,

Then to my knees you do promote me!

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By (user no longer on site) OP over a year ago

"I'm your little scarlet starlet singing in the garden. Kiss me on my open mouth."

Lana?

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By (user no longer on site) OP over a year ago

"“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.”

- Marianne Williamson, "A Return To Love: Reflections on the Principles of A Course in Miracles ""

Oh I knew this, but not it's source! Now I'm trying to work out how I've come across it...mmm. Excellent though!

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By *risky_MareWoman over a year ago

...Up on the Downs

"Was re-reading Under Milk Wood by Dylan Thomas and indulging in some of my favourite literary phrases from it:

and

"The only sea I saw was the seesaw sea with you riding on it. Lie down, lie easy. Let me shipwreck in your thighs."

Do you have sentences, paragraphs or phrases from books that particularly sparkle for you? "

I saw the BBC production of that recently, twas very good!

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

- Marianne Williamson, "A Return To Love: Reflections on the Principles of A Course in Miracles "

Oh I knew this, but not it's source! Now I'm trying to work out how I've come across it...mmm. Excellent though!

Often attributed, wrongly, to Nelson Mandela in his inaugural speech

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By (user no longer on site) OP over a year ago

""when routine bites hard,and ambitions are low

and resentment rides high but emotions wont grow

and we are changing our ways, taking different roads

then love,love will tear us apart again"

Ian Curtis

Hearing Hooky bring the bass line in sets hairs on me on end every time I hear him play it live.....earlier this year he just stood as 3000+ people just sang it to him...it was breathtaking

Love this.

Also really like this version of it too:

https://youtu.be/sHhVydgvuAc

Susanna and the Magical Orchestra 'Love Will Tear Us Apart'

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By *iver2015Woman over a year ago

middlesbrough

"All was quiet in the deep dark wood. The mouse found a nut and the nut was good"

He faced many hurdles that day and overcome them all.

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By *edylogosMan over a year ago

wolverhampton

- Marianne Williamson, "A Return To Love: Reflections on the Principles of A Course in Miracles "

Oh I knew this, but not it's source! Now I'm trying to work out how I've come across it...mmm. Excellent though!

Often attributed, wrongly, to Nelson Mandela in his inaugural speech"

"Ability is nothing without opportunity" Nepolean

"Cultivating whatever gave pleasure to my senses was always the chief business of my life; I have never found any occupation more important. Feeling that I was born for the sex opposite mine, I have always loved it and done all that I could to make myself loved by it. I have also been extravagantly fond of good food and irresistibly drawn by anything which could excite curiosity." Casanova

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By *edylogosMan over a year ago

wolverhampton

""All was quiet in the deep dark wood. The mouse found a nut and the nut was good"

He faced many hurdles that day and overcome them all.

Gotta love the gruffalo

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

""All was quiet in the deep dark wood. The mouse found a nut and the nut was good"

He faced many hurdles that day and overcome them all.

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By *igeiaWoman over a year ago

Bristol

"I'm your little scarlet starlet singing in the garden. Kiss me on my open mouth.

Lana?"

Yep. I think she's a much underrated lyricist.

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By (user no longer on site) OP over a year ago

- Marianne Williamson, "A Return To Love: Reflections on the Principles of A Course in Miracles "

Oh I knew this, but not it's source! Now I'm trying to work out how I've come across it...mmm. Excellent though!

Often attributed, wrongly, to Nelson Mandela in his inaugural speech"

Ahh that may well be it.

Love this one that *was* Mandela:

"No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin, or his background, or his religion. People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite."

I was watching Long Walk to Freedom with Idris Elba the other night!

Well, not *with* him but....

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

- Marianne Williamson, "A Return To Love: Reflections on the Principles of A Course in Miracles "

Oh I knew this, but not it's source! Now I'm trying to work out how I've come across it...mmm. Excellent though!

Often attributed, wrongly, to Nelson Mandela in his inaugural speech

Ahh that may well be it.

Love this one that *was* Mandela:

I was watching Long Walk to Freedom with Idris Elba the other night!

Well, not *with* him but...."

We can but dream

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By (user no longer on site) OP over a year ago

"I'm your little scarlet starlet singing in the garden. Kiss me on my open mouth.

Lana?

Yep. I think she's a much underrated lyricist."

Agreed.

I've grown up on Dylan and Joni Mitchell as my go to literary lyricists.

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

""Let me tell you something about her. It’s that middle stretch of the night, when the curtains leak no light, the only street-noise is the grizzle of a returning Romeo, and the birds haven’t begun their routine yet cheering business. She’s lying on her side, turned away from me. I can’t see her in the dark, but from the hushed swell of her breathing I could draw you the map of her body. When she’s happy she can sleep for hours in the same position. I’ve watched over her in all those sewery parts of the night, and can testify that she doesn’t move. It could be just down to good digestion and calm dreams, of course; but I take it as a sign of happiness..........

Julian Barnes -- A History of the World in 10½ Chapters "

So many beautiful quotes and authors but this nearly made me cry at its beautiful description

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

My favourite literary quotation is the 1st line of my profile.

Always felt it Speaks for itself.

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By (user no longer on site) OP over a year ago

""All was quiet in the deep dark wood. The mouse found a nut and the nut was good"

He faced many hurdles that day and overcome them all.

Love a gruffalo!

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By (user no longer on site) OP over a year ago

"Was re-reading Under Milk Wood by Dylan Thomas and indulging in some of my favourite literary phrases from it:

and

"The only sea I saw was the seesaw sea with you riding on it. Lie down, lie easy. Let me shipwreck in your thighs."

Do you have sentences, paragraphs or phrases from books that particularly sparkle for you?

I saw the BBC production of that recently, twas very good!

The all Welsh cast? It was fabulous!!

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By (user no longer on site) OP over a year ago

""I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain."

Oooh where's that from?

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By (user no longer on site) OP over a year ago

"Anything from Alex Turner

'The way you keep me in pursuit,

Sharpen the heel of your boot,

And you press it to my chest and you make me wheeze,

Then to my knees you do promote me!"

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By *igeiaWoman over a year ago

Bristol

Oooh where's that from? "

Dune I think? Frank Herbert?

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By (user no longer on site) OP over a year ago

- Marianne Williamson, "A Return To Love: Reflections on the Principles of A Course in Miracles "

Oh I knew this, but not it's source! Now I'm trying to work out how I've come across it...mmm. Excellent though!

Often attributed, wrongly, to Nelson Mandela in his inaugural speech

"Ability is nothing without opportunity" Nepolean

The second works well as a fab profile

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By *edylogosMan over a year ago

wolverhampton

- Marianne Williamson, "A Return To Love: Reflections on the Principles of A Course in Miracles "

Oh I knew this, but not it's source! Now I'm trying to work out how I've come across it...mmm. Excellent though!

Often attributed, wrongly, to Nelson Mandela in his inaugural speech

"Ability is nothing without opportunity" Nepolean

The second works well as a fab profile

Yeah I know - however apart from all the sex Casanova is a ridiculously interesting guy to read about

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By (user no longer on site) OP over a year ago

Julian Barnes -- A History of the World in 10½ Chapters

So many beautiful quotes and authors but this nearly made me cry at its beautiful description "

It's from the half chapter in the book called Parenthesis. That's but a little of it. It's all about love. I have a real thing about this chapter. And I have numerous copies of this book.

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

"you have been the last dream of my soul"

Charles Dickens

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By *obwithkiltMan over a year ago

Belton

""when routine bites hard,and ambitions are low

and resentment rides high but emotions wont grow

and we are changing our ways, taking different roads

then love,love will tear us apart again"

Ian Curtis

Hearing Hooky bring the bass line in sets hairs on me on end every time I hear him play it live.....earlier this year he just stood as 3000+ people just sang it to him...it was breathtaking

Love this.

Also really like this version of it too:

https://youtu.be/sHhVydgvuAc

Susanna and the Magical Orchestra 'Love Will Tear Us Apart'

this is stunning!! thank you

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By (user no longer on site) OP over a year ago

Oooh where's that from?

Dune I think? Frank Herbert?"

Yes! Of course!

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By (user no longer on site) OP over a year ago

""when routine bites hard,and ambitions are low

and resentment rides high but emotions wont grow

and we are changing our ways, taking different roads

then love,love will tear us apart again"

Ian Curtis

Hearing Hooky bring the bass line in sets hairs on me on end every time I hear him play it live.....earlier this year he just stood as 3000+ people just sang it to him...it was breathtaking

Love this.

Also really like this version of it too:

https://youtu.be/sHhVydgvuAc

Susanna and the Magical Orchestra 'Love Will Tear Us Apart'

this is stunning!! thank you

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

It isn't literary - apologies Princess Estella - but something that has stuck with me and I go back to on a regular basis

Steve Jobs Stanford address - https://youtu.be/D1R-jKKp3NA

If you have 15 minutes it is well worth a listen.

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By (user no longer on site) OP over a year ago

""you have been the last dream of my soul"

Charles Dickens"

Oooofffft.

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

Oooh where's that from?

Dune I think? Frank Herbert?"

the Bene Gesserit Litany

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By (user no longer on site) OP over a year ago

"My favourite literary quotation is the 1st line of my profile.

Always felt it Speaks for itself."

I might have to copy that

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By (user no longer on site) OP over a year ago

"It isn't literary - apologies Princess Estella - but something that has stuck with me and I go back to on a regular basis

Steve Jobs Stanford address - https://youtu.be/D1R-jKKp3NA

If you have 15 minutes it is well worth a listen."

Bookmarked! Thank you. Also, no apologies and I'm anything but a princess!!

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By *inky-MinxWoman over a year ago

Grantham

I love the Serenity Prayer, thats kind of my blueprint for life

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By *igeiaWoman over a year ago

Bristol

"There is a striking resemblance between the act of love and the ministrations of a torturer."

Angela Carter

She wrote far more beautiful things. But I like the pithiness of that one.

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By *inky-MinxWoman over a year ago

Grantham

"It isn't literary - apologies Princess Estella - but something that has stuck with me and I go back to on a regular basis

Steve Jobs Stanford address - https://youtu.be/D1R-jKKp3NA

If you have 15 minutes it is well worth a listen."

I do like some of the TED talks

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By (user no longer on site) OP over a year ago

"I love the Serenity Prayer, thats kind of my blueprint for life

Beautiful

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By (user no longer on site) OP over a year ago

""There is a striking resemblance between the act of love and the ministrations of a torturer."

Angela Carter

She wrote far more beautiful things. But I like the pithiness of that one."

That's perfection!

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By (user no longer on site) OP over a year ago

"It isn't literary - apologies Princess Estella - but something that has stuck with me and I go back to on a regular basis

Steve Jobs Stanford address - https://youtu.be/D1R-jKKp3NA

If you have 15 minutes it is well worth a listen.

I do like some of the TED talks

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

To his mistress going to bed, John Doone

License my roving hands, let them go behind, between, above, below...

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

Thunder on my right hand, lightning in my left. Fire behind me frost in front of me. - Wintersmith

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

"To his mistress going to bed, John Doone

License my roving hands, let them go behind, between, above, below..."

Oops typo

Let them go before, behind, between, above, below

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By *eneRoissyMan over a year ago

Nailsworth

The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes “Awww!

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

My love will come.

Will fling open her arms and fold me in them,

will understand my fears, observe my changes.

In from the pouring dark, from the pitch night

without stopping to bang the taxi door.

She'll run upstairs through the decaying porch

burning with love and love’s happiness,

she’ll run dripping upstairs, she won’t knock,

will take my head in her hands,

and when she drops her overcoat on a chair,

it will slide to the floor in a blue heap.

Yevgeny Yevtushenko

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

I'm feeling like I should go and read a book now, or I'll be kicked out of the reading room. Have spent the past 2 hours amusing myself making blow job gifs from videos.

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By *edylogosMan over a year ago

wolverhampton

"I'm feeling like I should go and read a book now, or I'll be kicked out of the reading room. Have spent the past 2 hours amusing myself making blow job gifs from videos. "

Nothing wrong with that

wouldn't worry about it

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By (user no longer on site) OP over a year ago

"The anticipation and dread he felt at seeing her was also a kind of sensual pleasure, and surrounding it, like an embrace, was a general elation -- it might hurt, it was horribly inconvenient, no good might come of it, but he had found out for himself what it was to be in love, and it thrilled him."

and

"She lay in the dark and knew everything."

Ian McEwan -- Atonement

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By *obwithkiltMan over a year ago

Belton

I have a Douglas Adams quote in my workspace wherever I work...

I seldom end up where I wanted to go, but almost always end up where I need to be.

I also am reminded now of another of his after recent events....

Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.

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By (user no longer on site) OP over a year ago

"To his mistress going to bed, John Doone

License my roving hands, let them go behind, between, above, below..."

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

These are two of my favourites from the Great Bard.

Men at some time are the masters of their fates: the fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in us, that we are underlings.

The fool doth thinks he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

"I'm feeling like I should go and read a book now, or I'll be kicked out of the reading room. Have spent the past 2 hours amusing myself making blow job gifs from videos. "

That's the most beautiful quote yet

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By (user no longer on site) OP over a year ago

"Thunder on my right hand, lightning in my left. Fire behind me frost in front of me. - Wintersmith"

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By (user no longer on site) OP over a year ago

"The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes “Awww!"

On the road!! Yes!!

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By (user no longer on site) OP over a year ago

"My love will come.

Will fling open her arms and fold me in them,

will understand my fears, observe my changes.

In from the pouring dark, from the pitch night

without stopping to bang the taxi door.

She'll run upstairs through the decaying porch

burning with love and love’s happiness,

she’ll run dripping upstairs, she won’t knock,

will take my head in her hands,

and when she drops her overcoat on a chair,

it will slide to the floor in a blue heap.

Yevgeny Yevtushenko

Oh I really like that!!

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By *imiUKMan over a year ago

Hereford

A quite I find apt for fabs:

"Shyness is nice, and

Shyness can stop you;

From doing all the things in life you'd like to.

So if there's something you'd like to try,

Ask me, I won't say no, how could I?"

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

I do not love you as if you were salt-rose, or topaz,

or the arrow of carnations the fire shoots off.

I love you as certain dark things are to be loved,

in secret, between the shadow and the soul.

I love you as the plant that never blooms

but carries in itself the light of hidden flowers;

thanks to your love a certain solid fragrance,

risen from the earth, lives darkly in my body.

I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where.

I love you straightforwardly, without complexities or pride;

so I love you because I know no other way

than this: where I does not exist, nor you,

so close that your hand on my chest is my hand,

so close that your eyes close as I fall asleep.

Pablo Neruda

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By (user no longer on site) OP over a year ago

"I'm feeling like I should go and read a book now, or I'll be kicked out of the reading room. Have spent the past 2 hours amusing myself making blow job gifs from videos. "

Can you put them on YouTube and link?!

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By (user no longer on site) OP over a year ago

"I have a Douglas Adams quote in my workspace wherever I work...

I seldom end up where I wanted to go, but almost always end up where I need to be.

I also am reminded now of another of his after recent events....

Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.

How apt!

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

"Live in the present, remember the past, fear not the future for it does not exist and never shall, there is only now . "

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By *eanut Butter CupWoman over a year ago

B & M Bargains

I'm really uncultured with literature, my book choices are all chick lit crap

but two I always liked from school are the poem by W H Auden "Stop All The Clocks" in particular this bit -

He was my North, my South, my East and West,

My working week and my Sunday rest,

My noon, my midnight, my talk, my song;

I thought that love would last for ever: I was wrong.

And the song "Night and Day" for the music that goes along with the lyrics

Like the beat beat beat of the tom-tom

When the jungle shadows fall

Like the tick tick tock of the stately clock

As it stands against the wall

Like the drip drip drip of the raindrops

When the summer shower is through

So a voice within me keeps repeating you, you, you

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

One thing you had to remember when dealing with dwarfs was that while the shared the same world as you did, metaphorically they thought about is as if it were upside down.

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By (user no longer on site) OP over a year ago

"These are two of my favourites from the Great Bard.

Men at some time are the masters of their fates: the fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in us, that we are underlings.

The fool doth thinks he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool. "

As you like it -- and I do!

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

A quote I coined and quite like and used at the end of one if my music videos is "Dream Big , Aim High and Stay Blessed.. Remember Nothing is impossible" just thought id throw it out there lol.. or when me mum used to say "if you break your leg, don't come running to me haha xx

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

"I do not love you as if you were salt-rose, or topaz,

or the arrow of carnations the fire shoots off.

I love you as certain dark things are to be loved,

in secret, between the shadow and the soul.

I love you as the plant that never blooms

but carries in itself the light of hidden flowers;

thanks to your love a certain solid fragrance,

risen from the earth, lives darkly in my body.

I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where.

I love you straightforwardly, without complexities or pride;

so I love you because I know no other way

than this: where I does not exist, nor you,

so close that your hand on my chest is my hand,

so close that your eyes close as I fall asleep.

Pablo Neruda

Have you seen Il Postino yet Hatter? If not, I'm going to have to lend you my copy!!

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

"I'm really uncultured with literature, my book choices are all chick lit crap

but two I always liked from school are the poem by W H Auden "Stop All The Clocks" in particular this bit -

He was my North, my South, my East and West,

My working week and my Sunday rest,

My noon, my midnight, my talk, my song;

I thought that love would last for ever: I was wrong.

I'm not a cryer, I have a heart of stone when it compared to most people but I can't read that poem without welling up, even if I read it in my head.

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By (user no longer on site) OP over a year ago

"A quite I find apt for fabs:

"Shyness is nice, and

Shyness can stop you;

From doing all the things in life you'd like to.

So if there's something you'd like to try,

Ask me, I won't say no, how could I?""

Careful Jimi, I may just PM you and you really don't want that kind of irritation!

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By (user no longer on site) OP over a year ago

"I do not love you as if you were salt-rose, or topaz,

or the arrow of carnations the fire shoots off.

I love you as certain dark things are to be loved,

in secret, between the shadow and the soul.

I love you as the plant that never blooms

but carries in itself the light of hidden flowers;

thanks to your love a certain solid fragrance,

risen from the earth, lives darkly in my body.

I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where.

I love you straightforwardly, without complexities or pride;

so I love you because I know no other way

than this: where I does not exist, nor you,

so close that your hand on my chest is my hand,

so close that your eyes close as I fall asleep.

Pablo Neruda

Oh I'm such a Nerudalet!

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By *imiUKMan over a year ago

Hereford

"A quite I find apt for fabs:

"Shyness is nice, and

Shyness can stop you;

From doing all the things in life you'd like to.

So if there's something you'd like to try,

Ask me, I won't say no, how could I?"

Careful Jimi, I may just PM you and you really don't want that kind of irritation!

In spite of the Morrissey?

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By (user no longer on site) OP over a year ago

""Live in the present, remember the past, fear not the future for it does not exist and never shall, there is only now . "

Oh I don't know that one, thank you -- a useful one for me currently as I've got some big future decision-making to do and it's overwhelming!

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By (user no longer on site) OP over a year ago

"A quite I find apt for fabs:

"Shyness is nice, and

Shyness can stop you;

From doing all the things in life you'd like to.

So if there's something you'd like to try,

Ask me, I won't say no, how could I?"

Careful Jimi, I may just PM you and you really don't want that kind of irritation!

In spite of the Morrissey?

"Fifteen minutes with you, well, I wouldn't say no.."

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

I may be lay in the gutter but I'm gazing at the stars

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By (user no longer on site) OP over a year ago

"I'm really uncultured with literature, my book choices are all chick lit crap

but two I always liked from school are the poem by W H Auden "Stop All The Clocks" in particular this bit -

He was my North, my South, my East and West,

My working week and my Sunday rest,

My noon, my midnight, my talk, my song;

I thought that love would last for ever: I was wrong.

And the song "Night and Day" for the music that goes along with the lyrics

Like the beat beat beat of the tom-tom

When the jungle shadows fall

Like the tick tick tock of the stately clock

As it stands against the wall

Like the drip drip drip of the raindrops

When the summer shower is through

So a voice within me keeps repeating you, you, you"

The only good bit in Four Weddings and a Funeral!

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By *igeiaWoman over a year ago

Bristol

"My dear, beautiful and imaginative things can be destroyed. Beauty and imagination cannot."

Alan Moore, Lost Girls (plus the visuals are sumptuous)

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By (user no longer on site) OP over a year ago

"One thing you had to remember when dealing with dwarfs was that while the shared the same world as you did, metaphorically they thought about is as if it were upside down. "

Haha!

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By (user no longer on site) OP over a year ago

"A quote I coined and quite like and used at the end of one if my music videos is "Dream Big , Aim High and Stay Blessed.. Remember Nothing is impossible" just thought id throw it out there lol.. or when me mum used to say "if you break your leg, don't come running to me haha xx"

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

Oh the rhythm of my heart is beating like a drum. With the words I love you rolling off my tongue. Oh never will I roam, for I know my place is home. Where the ocean meets the sky, I'll be sailing.

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By (user no longer on site) OP over a year ago

"I do not love you as if you were salt-rose, or topaz,

or the arrow of carnations the fire shoots off.

I love you as certain dark things are to be loved,

in secret, between the shadow and the soul.

I love you as the plant that never blooms

but carries in itself the light of hidden flowers;

thanks to your love a certain solid fragrance,

risen from the earth, lives darkly in my body.

I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where.

I love you straightforwardly, without complexities or pride;

so I love you because I know no other way

than this: where I does not exist, nor you,

so close that your hand on my chest is my hand,

so close that your eyes close as I fall asleep.

Pablo Neruda

Have you seen Il Postino yet Hatter? If not, I'm going to have to lend you my copy!!

Love Il Postino -- so much love!!!

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

"I may be lay in the gutter but I'm gazing at the stars"

Wilde

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By (user no longer on site) OP over a year ago

"I'm really uncultured with literature, my book choices are all chick lit crap

but two I always liked from school are the poem by W H Auden "Stop All The Clocks" in particular this bit -

He was my North, my South, my East and West,

My working week and my Sunday rest,

My noon, my midnight, my talk, my song;

I thought that love would last for ever: I was wrong.

I'm not a cryer, I have a heart of stone when it compared to most people but I can't read that poem without welling up, even if I read it in my head. "

Yer big goo-ball.

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By *imiUKMan over a year ago

Hereford

"A quite I find apt for fabs:

"Shyness is nice, and

Shyness can stop you;

From doing all the things in life you'd like to.

So if there's something you'd like to try,

Ask me, I won't say no, how could I?"

Careful Jimi, I may just PM you and you really don't want that kind of irritation!

In spite of the Morrissey?

"Fifteen minutes with you, well, I wouldn't say no.." "

And (ostensibly) on the subject of dogging:

"And in the darkened underpass,

I thought "Oh god! My chance has come at last",

But a strange far gripped me and I just couldn't ask..."

And then later, and presumably emboldened:

"Under the iron bridge, we kissed,

And although I ended up with sore lips,

It just wasn't ike the old days anymore,

Am I still ill?..."

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By *eanut Butter CupWoman over a year ago

B & M Bargains

I have fleetwood mac lyrics on my profile if it wasn't hidden, I like a few lines in that song -

She rules her life like a bird in flight and

Who will be her lover?

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By (user no longer on site) OP over a year ago

"I may be lay in the gutter but I'm gazing at the stars

Wilde"

And used in The Pretenders song Message of Love:

https://youtu.be/X77-G1DDChs

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By *imiUKMan over a year ago

Hereford

Have you seen Il Postino yet Hatter? If not, I'm going to have to lend you my copy!!

Love Il Postino -- so much love!!!"

Il Postino Pat?

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By (user no longer on site) OP over a year ago

""My dear, beautiful and imaginative things can be destroyed. Beauty and imagination cannot."

Alan Moore, Lost Girls (plus the visuals are sumptuous)"

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By (user no longer on site) OP over a year ago

"Oh the rhythm of my heart is beating like a drum. With the words I love you rolling off my tongue. Oh never will I roam, for I know my place is home. Where the ocean meets the sky, I'll be sailing. "

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By (user no longer on site) OP over a year ago

"A quite I find apt for fabs:

"Shyness is nice, and

Shyness can stop you;

From doing all the things in life you'd like to.

So if there's something you'd like to try,

Ask me, I won't say no, how could I?"

Careful Jimi, I may just PM you and you really don't want that kind of irritation!

In spite of the Morrissey?

"Fifteen minutes with you, well, I wouldn't say no.."

And (ostensibly) on the subject of dogging:

"And in the darkened underpass,

I thought "Oh god! My chance has come at last",

But a strange far gripped me and I just couldn't ask..."

And then later, and presumably emboldened:

"Under the iron bridge, we kissed,

And although I ended up with sore lips,

It just wasn't ike the old days anymore,

Am I still ill?..."

Bwahahaha

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By (user no longer on site) OP over a year ago

"I have fleetwood mac lyrics on my profile if it wasn't hidden, I like a few lines in that song -

She rules her life like a bird in flight and

Who will be her lover?"

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By (user no longer on site) OP over a year ago

Have you seen Il Postino yet Hatter? If not, I'm going to have to lend you my copy!!

Love Il Postino -- so much love!!!

Il Postino Pat?"

Stoppit!!

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

I'd like to destroy you a few times in bed...Ernest Hemingway

Sorry Estella I couldn't resist

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By *eliWoman over a year ago

Margaret Atwood - in particular The Handmaid's Tale.

"We were the people who were not in the papers. We lived in the blank white spaces at the edges of print. It gave us more freedom. We lived in the gaps between the stories."

Haruki Marakami.

"Memories warm you up from the inside. But they also tear you apart."

And my absolute favourite of all time, Oscar Wilde.

"Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault. Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope. They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only Beauty. There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all."

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

Or from a Chinese proverb..

If people cannot laugh over and over at the same joke, but can always cry over the same thing..

I do like this one xx

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By (user no longer on site) OP over a year ago

"I'd like to destroy you a few times in bed...Ernest Hemingway

Sorry Estella I couldn't resist

No apology needed!!

I'll return with:

"In my dreams I kiss your cunt, your sweet wet cunt. In my thoughts I make love to you all day long."

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

"Margaret Atwood - in particular The Handmaid's Tale.

"We were the people who were not in the papers. We lived in the blank white spaces at the edges of print. It gave us more freedom. We lived in the gaps between the stories."

Haruki Marakami.

"Memories warm you up from the inside. But they also tear you apart."

And my absolute favourite of all time, Oscar Wilde.

Love Oscar Wilde

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By (user no longer on site) OP over a year ago

"Margaret Atwood - in particular The Handmaid's Tale.

"We were the people who were not in the papers. We lived in the blank white spaces at the edges of print. It gave us more freedom. We lived in the gaps between the stories."

Haruki Marakami.

"Memories warm you up from the inside. But they also tear you apart."

And my absolute favourite of all time, Oscar Wilde.

Wonderful choices.

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

"I'd like to destroy you a few times in bed...Ernest Hemingway

Sorry Estella I couldn't resist

No apology needed!!

I'll return with:

"In my dreams I kiss your cunt, your sweet wet cunt. In my thoughts I make love to you all day long.""

Fitting for fab

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

I'm tired of the war.

I want the kind of life I had before

A wedding dress or something white

To wear upon my swollen appetite.

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By (user no longer on site) OP over a year ago

"Or from a Chinese proverb..

If people cannot laugh over and over at the same joke, but can always cry over the same thing..

I do like this one xx"

Did you get free prawn crackers?

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By *eneRoissyMan over a year ago

Nailsworth

Reminds me of the opening of under milkwood and like that poem seduces you into emersing yourself in the world of the poem and reading on...

"Let us go then, you and I,

When the evening is spread out against the sky

Like a patient etherized upon a table;

Let us go, through certain half-deserted streets,

The muttering retreats

Of restless nights in one-night cheap hotels

And sawdust restaurants with oyster-shells:

Streets that follow like a tedious argument

Of insidious intent

To lead you to an overwhelming question….

Oh, do not ask, “What is it?”

Let us go and make our visit."

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

Last one promise.. this one is the best out of ten ones I posted and it would be sacrilage to leave a quote from this guy off the feed..

"I spent a lot of money on booze,birds and fast cars. The rest I just squandered"

-George Best

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

Do not go gentle into that dark night,

Rage, rage Against the dying of the light.

Also Dylan Thomas, almost sends shivers up the spine!

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By (user no longer on site) OP over a year ago

"I'm tired of the war.

I want the kind of life I had before

A wedding dress or something white

To wear upon my swollen appetite."

Ahhh Leonard.

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By (user no longer on site) OP over a year ago

"Reminds me of the opening of under milkwood and like that poem seduces you into emersing yourself in the world of the poem and reading on...

"Let us go then, you and I,

When the evening is spread out against the sky

Like a patient etherized upon a table;

Let us go, through certain half-deserted streets,

The muttering retreats

Of restless nights in one-night cheap hotels

And sawdust restaurants with oyster-shells:

Streets that follow like a tedious argument

Of insidious intent

To lead you to an overwhelming question….

Oh, do not ask, “What is it?”

Let us go and make our visit.""

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

"Or from a Chinese proverb..

If people cannot laugh over and over at the same joke, but can always cry over the same thing..

I do like this one xx

Did you get free prawn crackers?

Haha something like that xx

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By (user no longer on site) OP over a year ago

"Last one promise.. this one is the George best out of ten ones I posted and it would be sacrilage to leave a quote from this guy off the feed..

"I spent a lot of money on booze,birds and fast cars. The rest I just squandered"

-George Best"

FTFY

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By (user no longer on site) OP over a year ago

"Do not go gentle into that dark night,

Rage, rage Against the dying of the light.

Also Dylan Thomas, almost sends shivers up the spine!"

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

"Reminds me of the opening of under milkwood and like that poem seduces you into emersing yourself in the world of the poem and reading on...

"Let us go then, you and I,

When the evening is spread out against the sky

Like a patient etherized upon a table;

Let us go, through certain half-deserted streets,

The muttering retreats

Of restless nights in one-night cheap hotels

And sawdust restaurants with oyster-shells:

Streets that follow like a tedious argument

Of insidious intent

To lead you to an overwhelming question….

Oh, do not ask, “What is it?”

Let us go and make our visit."

Love that.. you do feel immersed x

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By *eliWoman over a year ago

"Love Oscar Wilde "

Same! He's one of the easiest to lecture on without the usual glazed eye expressions that students sports after one too many on student night which helps me love his text even more.

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

Have you seen Il Postino yet Hatter? If not, I'm going to have to lend you my copy!!

Love Il Postino -- so much love!!!

Il Postino Pat?"

E il suo bianco e nero gatto?

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By *eliWoman over a year ago

Oh and Marquez! This in particular is rather fitting -

"But when a woman decides to sleep with a man, there is no wall she will not scale, no fortress she will not destroy, no moral consideration she will not ignore at its very root: there is no God worth worrying about."

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

"Last one promise.. this one is the George best out of ten ones I posted and it would be sacrilage to leave a quote from this guy off the feed..

"I spent a lot of money on booze,birds and fast cars. The rest I just squandered"

Haha thanks

-George Best

FTFY

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By *obwithkiltMan over a year ago

Belton

Wave after wave, each mightier than the last

'Til last, a ninth one, gathering half the deep

And full of voices, slowly rose and plunged

Roaring, and all the wave was in a flame

Tennyson "the coming of Arthur"

first saw this on back of Hounds of love album......i have had a battered copy of the complete works now for many years.

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Finally she whispered, “is it fun for you to torture me? . . . I should really hate you. Ever since we have known each other, you have given me nothing but suffering . . .” Her voice trembled, she leaned toward me, and lowered her head onto my breast.

“Perhaps,” I thought, “this is exactly why you loved me: joys are forgotten, but sadness, never . . .

Mikhail Lermontov, A Hero of Our Time

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By *imiUKMan over a year ago

Hereford

Have you seen Il Postino yet Hatter? If not, I'm going to have to lend you my copy!!

Love Il Postino -- so much love!!!

Il Postino Pat?

E il suo bianco e nero gatto?

Oddly that reminds me of a welsh "joke" about a painter and ecorator with a red van.

"Vincent Van Goch"

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

Never give all the heart, for love

Will Hardy seem worth thinking of

To passionate women if it seem

Certain, and they never dream

That it fades out from kiss to kiss

For everything that's lovely is

But a brief, dreamy, kind delight.

O never give the heart outright,

For they, for all smooth lips can say,

Have given their heart's up to the play.

And who could play it well enough

If deaf and dumb and blind with love?

He that made this knows all the cost,

For he gave all his heart and lost.

W.B. Yeats

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

Hakuna Matata! What a wonderful phrase. Hakuna Matata! Ain't no passing craze. It means no worries for the rest of your days. It's our problem free, philosophy, Hakuna Matata

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By (user no longer on site) OP over a year ago

"Oh and Marquez! This in particular is rather fitting -

Oooh yes!

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By (user no longer on site) OP over a year ago

"Wave after wave, each mightier than the last

'Til last, a ninth one, gathering half the deep

And full of voices, slowly rose and plunged

Roaring, and all the wave was in a flame

Tennyson "the coming of Arthur"

first saw this on back of Hounds of love album......i have had a battered copy of the complete works now for many years."

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By (user no longer on site) OP over a year ago

"Finally she whispered, “is it fun for you to torture me? . . . I should really hate you. Ever since we have known each other, you have given me nothing but suffering . . .” Her voice trembled, she leaned toward me, and lowered her head onto my breast.

“Perhaps,” I thought, “this is exactly why you loved me: joys are forgotten, but sadness, never . . .

Mikhail Lermontov, A Hero of Our Time

That's fantastic.

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By (user no longer on site) OP over a year ago

"Never give all the heart, for love

Will Hardy seem worth thinking of

To passionate women if it seem

Certain, and they never dream

That it fades out from kiss to kiss

For everything that's lovely is

But a brief, dreamy, kind delight.

O never give the heart outright,

For they, for all smooth lips can say,

Have given their heart's up to the play.

And who could play it well enough

If deaf and dumb and blind with love?

He that made this knows all the cost,

For he gave all his heart and lost.

W.B. Yeats"

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By (user no longer on site) OP over a year ago

"Hakuna Matata! What a wonderful phrase. Hakuna Matata! Ain't no passing craze. It means no worries for the rest of your days. It's our problem free, philosophy, Hakuna Matata

That made me laugh!

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By *inky-MinxWoman over a year ago

Grantham

"You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think".

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

“Perhaps,” I thought, “this is exactly why you loved me: joys are forgotten, but sadness, never . . .

Mikhail Lermontov, A Hero of Our Time

That's fantastic."

Lermontov is an amazing novelist and poet, unfortunately little known in this country - much more to my taste than some of his more renowned Russian peers.

I reckon you'd like his work

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By (user no longer on site) OP over a year ago

"We believe that we can change the things around us in accordance with our desires—we believe it because otherwise we can see no favourable outcome. We do not think of the outcome which generally comes to pass and is also favourable: we do not succeed in changing things in accordance with our desires, but gradually our desires change. The situation that we hoped to change because it was intolerable becomes unimportant to us. We have failed to surmount the obstacle, as we were absolutely determined to do, but life has taken us round it, led us beyond it, and then if we turn round to gaze into the distance of the past, we can barely see it, so imperceptible has it become.”

Marcel Proust -- In Search of Lost Time

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By (user no longer on site) OP over a year ago

"The most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or touched, they are felt with the heart.”

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry -- The Little Prince

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By *reygorCouple over a year ago

birmingham

so much cider ,so little time to drink it .me 2mins ago.i bet the great writers are bricking it,

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By (user no longer on site) OP over a year ago

"Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul. Lo-lee-ta: the tip of the tongue taking a trip of three steps down the palate to tap, at three, on the teeth. Lo. Lee. Ta. She was Lo, plain Lo, in the morning, standing four feet ten in one sock. She was Lola in slacks. She was Dolly at school. She was Dolores on the dotted line. But in my arms she was always Lolita. Did she have a precursor? She did, indeed she did. In point of fact, there might have been no Lolita at all had I not loved, one summer, an initial girl-child. In a princedom by the sea. Oh when? About as many years before Lolita was born as my age was that summer. You can always count on a murderer for a fancy prose style. Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, exhibit number one is what the seraphs, the misinformed, simple, noble-winged seraphs, envied. Look at this tangle of thorns.”

Vladimir Nabokov -- Lolita

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

We're walking with our eyes on everyone else, ignoring the screams that come from the people buried alive underneath our feet. Yet we say we're here for each other and say we care. And we hypocritically wonder why everyone is walking passed our own screams as though we don't do the same.

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By *eneRoissyMan over a year ago

Nailsworth

""Live in the present, remember the past, fear not the future for it does not exist and never shall, there is only now . "

Namaste

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

There are many quotes from Cloud Atlas but this is my favourite:

'My life amounts to no more than one drop in a limitless ocean. Yet what is any ocean, but a multitude of drops?'

And one of my favourite sci fi authors, Lois Mcmaster Bujold :

'Reputation is what other people know about you. Honor is what you know about yourself.'

Frank Herbert, Dune:

'I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.'

Neal Asher:

'However, some cannot live without their war and are unable to give up their hate. They are matured by conflict and cannot define themselves other than by what they fought. They consider themselves the polar opposite to their enemy, the antithesis of their enemy. They are the white hats whilst the enemy are the black hats. Their problem is that they cannot visualize a world without hats – and fail to see that the ugly processes of war ironed out those distinctions. And worse still, even when there are no black hats left, they seek others they deem suitable for that attire, because in the end it is not the enemy that matters, but the hate.'

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By (user no longer on site) OP over a year ago

"But I tried, didn’t I? Goddamnit, at least I did that.”

Ken Kesey -- One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest

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By *imiUKMan over a year ago

Hereford

Gur duilich leam mar tha mi

'S mo chridhe 'n sàs aig bròn

Bhon an uair a dh'fhàg mi

Beanntan àrd a' cheò

Gleanntannan a'mhànrain

Nan loch, nam bàgh 's nan sròm

'S an eala bhàn tha tàmh ann

Gach latha air 'm bheil mi 'n tòir.

A Mhagaidh na bi tùrsach

A rùin, ged gheibhinn bàs-

Cò am fear am measg an t-sluaigh

A mhaireas buan gu bràth?

Chan eil sinn uile ach air chuairt

Mar dhìthein buaile fàs

Bheir siantannan na blianna sios

'S nach tog a' ghrian an àird.

Tha 'n talamh leir mun cuairt dhìom

'Na mheallan suas 's na neòil;

Aig na 'shells a' bualadh -

Cha leir dhomh bhuam le ceò:

Gun chlaisneachd aig mo chluasan

Le fuaim a' ghunna mhòir;

Ach ged tha 'n uair seo cruaidh orm

Tha mo smuaintean air NicLeòid.

Air m' uilinn anns na truinnsichean

Tha m' inntinn ort, a ghràidh;

Nam chadal bidh mi a' bruadar ort

Cha dualach dhomh bhith slàn;

Tha m' aigne air a lionadh

Le cianalas cho làn

'S a'ghruag a dh'fhàs cho ruadh orm

A nis air thuar bhith bàn.

Ach ma thig an t-àm

Is anns an Fhraing gu faigh mi bàs

'S san uaigh gun tèid mo shìneadh

Far eil na mìltean chàch,

Mo bheannachd leis a' ghruagaich,

A' chaileag uasal bhàn -

Gach là a dh'fhalbh gun uallach dhi,

Gun nàire gruaidh na dhàil.

Oidhche mhath leat fhèin, a rùin

Nad leabaidh chùbhraidh bhlàth;

Cadal sàmhach air a chùl

Do dhùsgadh sunndach slàn.

Tha mise 'n seo 's truinnsidh fhuar

'S nam chluasan fuaim bhàis

Gun duil ri faighinn às le buaidh -

Tha 'n cuan cho buan ri shnàmh.

God, I'm annoying.

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By (user no longer on site) OP over a year ago

"Why did you do all this for me?’ he asked. ‘I don’t deserve it. I’ve never done anything for you.’ ‘You have been my friend,’ replied Charlotte. ‘That in itself is a tremendous thing.’”

E.B. White -- Charlotte’s Web

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By (user no longer on site) OP over a year ago

"Hello babies. Welcome to Earth. It’s hot in the summer and cold in the winter. It’s round and wet and crowded. On the outside, babies, you’ve got a hundred years here. There’s only one rule that I know of, babies—’God damn it, you’ve got to be kind.'”

Kurt Vonnegut -- God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater

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By (user no longer on site) OP over a year ago

"But I don’t want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin.”

Aldous Huxley -- Brave New World

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