"And I can't think of one thing in this whole wide blessed world,
That's more dangerous and frightening,
Than you when you get bored."

"This is the me in me I used to be able to shake it."

- "The Bright, The Heavy" (The Monster Lives of Boys and Girls), Eleni Sikelianos

"When I was a boy my grandfather died, and he was a sculptor. He was also a very kind man who had a lot of love to give the world, and he helped clean up the slum in our town; and he made toys for us and he did a million things in his lifetime; he was always busy with his hands. And when he died, I suddenly realized I wasn't crying for him at all, ( Read more... )

"His voice is as hard to listen to as a dying loved one, calling out to you for help, when you are restrained."

"Ronnie The Bear tells Harry that he could hardly stand watching him cow to such an asshole back there. Harry explains to the Bear that subtlety and patience are a great way to look pretty cool. The Bear has to agree, and they give each other Fonzie looks."

"The distance paid a lonesome price/ to see its motherland"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MG8WX5ZEw4Q

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"I trusted him, and all I know
is what he told me."

"Silence itself--the things one declines to say, or is forbidden to name, the discretion that is required between different speakers--is less the absolute limit of discourse, the other side from which it is separated by a strict boundary, than an element that functions alongside the things said, with them and in relation to them within over-all ( Read more... )

"But from what you just told me, I think you kinda had the wrong idea from the very beginning. You know what I mean, Mr. Wind-Up Bird? What you were just talking about . . . I don't know, it's kind of impossible for anybody to do that stuff, like, 'OK, now I'm gonna make a whole new world' or 'OK, now I'm gonna make a whole new self.' That's what I ( Read more... )