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[jones jones]

"Sometimes when I look at you, I feel I’m gazing at a distant star. It’s dazzling, but the light is from tens of thousands of years ago. Maybe the star doesn’t even exist any more. Yet sometimes that light seems more real to me than anything."

— Haruki Murakami, South of the Border, West of the Sun

"The girl gave him a look which ought to have stuck at least four inches out of his back."

— Raymond Chandler, The Long Goodbye

"The Greek word for “return” is nostos. Algos means “suffering.” So nostalgia is the suffering caused by an unappeased yearning to return."

— Milan Kundera, Ignorance

"All the while only in the process of learning life’s single lesson: that there is more accident to it than a man can ever admit to in a lifetime and stay sane."

— Thomas Pynchon, V.

"In beauty of face no maiden ever equaled her. It was the radiance of an opium-dream—an airy and spirit-lifting vision more wildly divine than the fantasies which hovered about the slumbering souls of the daughters of Delos."

— Edgar Allan Poe, “Ligeia”

"But now I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth."

— Umberto Eco, Foucault’s Pendulum

"there are worse things than

being alone

but it often takes decades

to realize this

and most often

when you do

it’s too late

and there’s nothing worse

than

too late."

— Charles Bukowski, “oh, yes”

From War All the Time

She seems so cool, so focused, so quiet, yet her eyes remain fixed upon the horizon.

You think you know all there is to know about her immediately upon meeting her, but everything you think you know is wrong. Passion flows through her like a river of blood.

She only looked away for a moment, and the mask slipped, and you fell. All your tomorrows start here."

— Neil Gaiman, “The Girls”

From Fragile Things

"For the philosopher is right who says that nothing thicker than a knife’s blade separates happiness from melancholy…"

— Virginia Woolf, Orlando

"What can I do with my happiness? How can I keep it, conceal it, bury it where I may never lose it? I want to kneel as it falls over me like rain, gather it up with lace and silk, and press it over myself again."

— Anaïs Nin, Henry and June: From the Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin

[High Threshold]

"I might have been your father if the Alsatian hadn't got over the fence before me."

High Threshold

"Welcome! Say, is this your new girlfriend? She doesn't look nearly as bad as you said!"

High Threshold

"Can you please tell your girlfriend to stop ringing me!"

High Threshold

"I see that you're still trying!"

High Threshold

"Guy Fawkes was the only man in British history to enter parliament with honest intentions"

Anonymous

"Is this your daughter? Wow! I see that attractiveness doesn't skip a generation!"

Jacko "Brush Strokes"

"Your mind is too narrow, and it's no surprise. If you fell on a pin, well, you'd be blind in both eyes."

John Kaye, "Tighten up your Wig"

"Our enemies will stop at nothing to destroy America, and neither will we!"

Geo. W. Bush

"Even an idiot knows Saddam Hussein has Weapons of Mass Destruction!"

Donald Rumsfeld

" ... Lady Anne made no sign of interfering. She had been dead for two hours."

Saki, "The Reticence Of Lady Anne"

[Lady J]

"The love in your heart wasn't put there to stay. Love isn't love till you give it away."



Thought I'd add one too!:-6

[High Threshold]

Lady J;1453324 wrote: "The love in your heart wasn't put there to stay. Love isn't love till you give it away."




Nice one, Lady, but I thought these were suppose to be self-explanatory. This one made me think too much. :wah: