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"All the lonely people,
Where do they all come from?
All the lonely people,
Where do they all belong ? "
The Beatles, "Eleanor Rigby"
"And yet what are we to do about this terribly significant business of other people, which gets bled of the significane we think it has and takes on instead a significane that is ludicrous, so ill-equiped are we all to envision one another's interior workings and invisible aims?" [emphasis mine]
Philip Roth, American Pastoral
"I prayed to rediscover my childhood, and it has come back, and I feel that it is just as difficult as it used to be, and that growing older has served no purpose at all."
Rainer Maria Rilke, "Fear," from The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge
Brokeback Mountain is a damn good movie. Go see it. I'd go again: call me?