Archive for July, 2008

Freedom is losing the fear of being you.

Richard Flint
Life is a Maze 1986

Stop in the name of all which does not suck.

Butthead
from Beavis and Butthead

let’s live suddenly without thinking
under honest trees,
a stream
does.

e.e. cummings
from Chimneys (1922)

The best way to get people to do what you want is not to be too particular about what you want them to do.

James Richardson
Vectors (2001)

O heart, heart, so singularly
Intransigent and corruptible,
Here we lie entranced by the starlit water,
And moments that should each last forever

Slide unconsciously by us like water.

Kenneth Rexroth
“Another Spring”
The Phoenix and the Tortoise
(1944)

I cannot accept myself as I am but, ultimately, I am resigned to accepting this inability to accept myself as I am

Geoff Dyer
Out of Sheer Rage (1997) p. 189

Louise turned and gave him such a long conspiring smile, offering intimately all the attractions of her woman’s face, that he only stammered…

William Sansom
A Bed of Roses (1954)  p.  54