Tagged: quotations

  1. “We are like sculptors, constantly carving out of others the image we long for, need, love or desire, often against reality, against their benefit, and always, in the end, a disappointment, because it does not fit them.” — Anaïs Nin “We are like sculptors, constantly carving out of others the image we long for, need, love or desire, often against reality, against their benefit, and always, in the end, a disappointment, because it does not fit them.” — Anaïs Nin

    “We are like sculptors, constantly carving out of others the image we long for, need, love or desire, often against reality, against their benefit, and always, in the end, a disappointment, because it does not fit them.”
    — Anaïs Nin

  2. “Dress you? I’d rather undress you. We don’t belong together. But you belong to me. I want you not as you might be. I want you as you are. ” — Cathleen Schine “Dress you? I’d rather undress you. We don’t belong together. But you belong to me. I want you not as you might be. I want you as you are. ” — Cathleen Schine

    “Dress you? I’d rather undress you. We don’t belong together. But you belong to me. I want you not as you might be. I want you as you are. ”
    — Cathleen Schine

  3. “The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.” — G.K. Chesterton “The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.” — G.K. Chesterton

    “The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.”
    — G.K. Chesterton

  4. Dance like you’re stamping on a human face forever, love like you’ve been in a serious car crash that minced the front of your brain, stab like no one can arrest you, and live like there’s no such thing as God.

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    Warren Ellis

    I spend a lot of time looking at quotations. I found this one and I don’t know where it’s from or when he said it, but (from his livejournal in 2007) it’s so perfect. It really sums Warren up nicely: simultaneously the best and worst thing you’ve ever known.

  5. “But let no person say what they would or would not do, since we are not judges for ourselves until circumstances call us to act.” — Abigail Adams “But let no person say what they would or would not do, since we are not judges for ourselves until circumstances call us to act.” — Abigail Adams

    “But let no person say what they would or would not do, since we are not judges for ourselves until circumstances call us to act.”
    — Abigail Adams

  6. “After loss of Identity, the most potent modern terror, is loss of sexuality, or, as Descartes didn’t say, “I fuck therefore I am”.” — Jeanette Winterson (Art & Lies: A Piece for Three Voices and a Bawd) “After loss of Identity, the most potent modern terror, is loss of sexuality, or, as Descartes didn’t say, “I fuck therefore I am”.” — Jeanette Winterson (Art & Lies: A Piece for Three Voices and a Bawd)

    “After loss of Identity, the most potent modern terror, is loss of sexuality, or, as Descartes didn’t say, “I fuck therefore I am”.”
    — Jeanette Winterson (Art & Lies: A Piece for Three Voices and a Bawd)

  7. There is no such thing as a person whose real self you like every particle of. This is why a world of liking is ultimately a lie. But there is such a thing as a person whose real self you love every particle of. And this is why love is such an existential threat to the techno-consumerist order: it exposes the lie.

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    - Jonathan Franzen from the New York Times article, “Liking is for cowards. Go for what hurts.”

    This is a wonderful article. And exactly what I needed to read today. (via sniffyjenkins)

  8. “Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I’m not living.” — Jonathan Safran Foer “Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I’m not living.” — Jonathan Safran Foer

    “Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I’m not living.”
    — Jonathan Safran Foer

  9. “While I can’t have you, I long for you. I am the kind of person who would miss a train or a plane to meet you for coffee. I’d take a taxi across town to see you for ten minutes. I’d wait outside all night if I thought you would open the door in the morning. If you call me and say ‘Will you…’ my answer is ‘Yes’, before your sentence is out. I spin worlds where we could be together. I dream you. For me, imagination and desire are very close.” — Jeanette Winterson “What should I do about the wild and the tame? The wild heart that wants to be free, and the tame heart that wants to come home. I want to be held. I don’t want you to come too close. I want you to scoop me up and bring me home at nights. I don’t want to tell you where I am. I want to keep a place among the rocks where no one can find me. I want to be with you.” — Jeanette Winterson “I have a theory that every time you make an important choice, the part of you left behind continues the other life you could have had.” — Jeanette Winterson “It’s hard to remember that this day will never come again. That the time is now and the place is here and that there are no second chances at a single moment.” — Jeanette Winterson “While I can’t have you, I long for you. I am the kind of person who would miss a train or a plane to meet you for coffee. I’d take a taxi across town to see you for ten minutes. I’d wait outside all night if I thought you would open the door in the morning. If you call me and say ‘Will you…’ my answer is ‘Yes’, before your sentence is out. I spin worlds where we could be together. I dream you. For me, imagination and desire are very close.” — Jeanette Winterson “What should I do about the wild and the tame? The wild heart that wants to be free, and the tame heart that wants to come home. I want to be held. I don’t want you to come too close. I want you to scoop me up and bring me home at nights. I don’t want to tell you where I am. I want to keep a place among the rocks where no one can find me. I want to be with you.” — Jeanette Winterson “I have a theory that every time you make an important choice, the part of you left behind continues the other life you could have had.” — Jeanette Winterson “It’s hard to remember that this day will never come again. That the time is now and the place is here and that there are no second chances at a single moment.” — Jeanette Winterson

    “While I can’t have you, I long for you. I am the kind of person who would miss a train or a plane to meet you for coffee. I’d take a taxi across town to see you for ten minutes. I’d wait outside all night if I thought you would open the door in the morning. If you call me and say ‘Will you…’ my answer is ‘Yes’, before your sentence is out. I spin worlds where we could be together. I dream you. For me, imagination and desire are very close.”
    — Jeanette Winterson

    “What should I do about the wild and the tame? The wild heart that wants to be free, and the tame heart that wants to come home. I want to be held. I don’t want you to come too close. I want you to scoop me up and bring me home at nights. I don’t want to tell you where I am. I want to keep a place among the rocks where no one can find me. I want to be with you.”
    — Jeanette Winterson

    “I have a theory that every time you make an important choice, the part of you left behind continues the other life you could have had.”
    — Jeanette Winterson

    “It’s hard to remember that this day will never come again. That the time is now and the place is here and that there are no second chances at a single moment.”
    — Jeanette Winterson

  10. “I keep thinking about this river somewhere, with the water moving really fast. And these two people in the water, trying to hold onto each other, holding on as hard as they can, but in the end it’s just too much. The current’s too strong. They’ve got to let go, drift apart. That’s how it is with us.” — Kazuo Ishiguro “I keep thinking about this river somewhere, with the water moving really fast. And these two people in the water, trying to hold onto each other, holding on as hard as they can, but in the end it’s just too much. The current’s too strong. They’ve got to let go, drift apart. That’s how it is with us.” — Kazuo Ishiguro

    “I keep thinking about this river somewhere, with the water moving really fast. And these two people in the water, trying to hold onto each other, holding on as hard as they can, but in the end it’s just too much. The current’s too strong. They’ve got to let go, drift apart. That’s how it is with us.”
    — Kazuo Ishiguro