Dec 25, 2005 22:11
I think the sentence "Boys are stupid" just doesn't register in girls' minds. It seems like no matter how many times they're told, they just never learn. Sometimes, they even learn the hard way and they still don't get it.
-me
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Outside the street's on fire
In a real death waltz
Between what's flesh and fantasy
And the poets down here
Don't write nothin at all
They just stand back and let it all be
And in the quick of the night
They reach for their moment
And try to make an honest stand
But they wind up wounded
Not even dead
Tonight in Jungle Land.
-Bruce Springsteen
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But in the end, I think it's perhaps best for [them] to belong to the reader, who will visualize them through the lense of imagination in a vivid and constantly changing way no camera can duplicate. Movies, after all, are only an illusion of motion comprised of thousands of still photographs. The imagination, however, moves with its own tidal flow. Films, even the best of them, freeze fiction...
-Stephen King