An old dream with a shiny new veneer. It's fascinating, you know, how an obsolete madness is sometimes adopted and stylized in an attempt to ghoulishly preserve it. These are the days of second-hand fantasies and antiquated hysteria. ("The Chymist")
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Related I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES Were you there?” She shook her head. “No. I was here in Nain having a child.” �... FRANCINE RIVERS Now that I am alone, I don't have to hide it; I don't have to hide anything any longer. I can let my... ROALD DAHL Life is an audition. THOMAS FLAJNIK - ANTICHIMERAPODAL Every city is a ghost. New buildings rise upon the bones of the old so that each shiny steel be... LIBBA BRAY There is only one true aristocracy . . . and that is the aristocracy of passionate souls! TENNESSEE WILLIAMS Reach out and help others. If you have the power to make someone happy, do it. Be a vessel, be the c... GERMANY KENT FROZEN DREAM I'll take the dream I had last night And put it in my freezer, So ... SHEL SILVERSTEIN All you need to catch a fairy is an old birdhouse and some shiny stuff. You know, like glass and gli... ERIN MORGENSTERN New York is an ugly city, a dirty city. Its climate is a scandal, its politics are used to frighten ... JOHN STEINBECK I aspire to be an old man with an old wife laughing at old jokes from a wild... ATTICUS POETRY Here’s to all the places we went. And all the places we’ll go. And here’s me, whispering again... JOHN GREEN I'm not interested in dating a girl I'm not gonna marry JOHN GREEN The future will erase everything--there's no level of fame or genius that allows you to transcend ob... JOHN GREEN Who says paper worlds Are an escape from what is real? As though the lives trapped in thei... ERIN HANSON Thought of the day. If you are in an impossible situation. Then find an impos... GARY EDWARD GEDALL People are going to think I'm morbid, loving all these sad books. I actually don't mind a happy endi... JULIA L. ROBERTS A dream so vibrant, A dream so blissful; I hold it close to my heart. In anxious nigh... SOMYA KEDIA When you have nothing nobody knows you.
When you have something everyone knows you.
If you're not wi... REGINA MARIE CHRISTENSON My father always told me, "Find a job you love and you'll never have to work a day in your life. JIM FOX Live for today with your eyes on the future. THOMAS FLAJNIK - ANTICHIMERAPODAL Don't let anyone blind you with their criticism, you're just beautiful. AMAN JANGDA Everyone is good at something as long as they love that something. ARDIT BALISHA The hardest step to take is always the first one. THOMAS FLAJNIK - ANTICHIMERAPODAL To rule an iceberg, you must swim,.. Deep.
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R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER You run ahead? Are you doing it as a shepherd? Or as an exception? A third case would be as a fugiti... FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE So runs my dream, but what am I? An infant crying in the night An infant crying for the li... ALFRED TENNYSON Hello, How are you? New in this world? How old are you?? I'm sure that I know yo... DEYTH BANGER An elementary school student asked me the NOT “politically correct” question, “Is an idiot sma... RAY PALLA Much Madness Is Divinest Sense Much Madness is divinest Sense — To a discer... EMILY DICKINSON If you are an introvert, you are born with a temperament that craves to be alone, delights in m... ALETHEIA LUNA Days like this, like your day today. maybe the rain on the window trying to get through ... CHARLES BUKOWSKI This is an ode to life. The anthem of the world. For as there are billions of differe... KAMAND KOJOURI … in these new days and in these new pages a philosophical tradition of the spontaneity of specula... RICHARD MCSWEENEY Are you an idiot, or an idiot?' Gargarin hissed. 'The first one. I really resent being ca... MELINA MARCHETTA THE WEATHER OF LOVE Love Has a way of wilting Or blossoming At the s... SUZY KASSEM What if you slept? And what if, in your sleep, you dreamed? And what if, in your dream, you went... SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE I have an attraction to strange and unusual things. I find them interesting, spellbin... MELODY LEE The little things are most worthwhile- A quite word, a look, a smile, A listening ear that... MARGARET LINDSEY Sunsets are loved because they vanish. Flowers are loved because they go. The ... RAY BRADBURY My tactic is to look at you To learn how you are Love you as you are My tactic is to... MARIO BENEDETTI How the old mountains drip with sunset, And the brake of dun! How the hemlocks are tipped in t... EMILY DICKINSON How do we know we're not people in a movie?' she asked. I looked at her not knowing how t... JULIE METZ Take a chance of your life, you're risking nothing in this planet. NAZIM AMBALATH The compass rose is nothing but a star with an infinite number of rays pointing in all directions. VERA NAZARIAN What We Want What we want is never simple. We move among the things LINDA PASTAN Love That’s it: The cashless commerce. The blanket always too short. The... GüNTER GRASS This boy needs a dog. What makes you say that? He needs someone or something to play with ... KENT HARUF The power of heart is much stronger than the power of mind to empower our life. ANUJ SOMANY We are very excited to be working hand in hand with Midway to translate this innovative game i... DAVID GALE Take my hand and hold on tight. We are going into the land of “Out Grandpa’s Backdoor”. WILLIAM F. MAPEL sometimes when everything seems at its worst when all conspires and gnaws and th... CHARLES BUKOWSKI To see a world in a grain of sand And a heaven in a wild flower, Hold infinity in the palm... WILLIAM BLAKE Hunger. It's like an animal trapped inside you, Thomas thought. JAMES DASHNER Seeing, touching is believing! THOMAS FLAJNIK - ANTICHIMERAPODAL SEO is DEAD in the eyes of the people who know LESS about it. J. ORACOY I let out a sound that was definitely not a whimper. It was something far more manly, no matter what... BRANDON SANDERSON Elm BY SYLVIA PLATH I know the bottom, she says. I know it with my great tap r... SYLVIA PLATH I'm nobody! Who are you? Are you nobody, too? Then there ’s a pair of us—don’t tel... EMILY DICKINSON Nobody died. how can you kill an idea? How can you kill the personification of an action?" "The... NEIL GAIMAN When you wake up from a dream you have only a few precious moments before the details of the dream b... VERA NAZARIAN I haven't fought with anyone else in over two thousand years. (Kyrian) Well, you're never too o... SHERRILYN KENYON Seated across is a silent affair looking into my eyes; blurring the loud scenery. An incapable ... RANJANI RAMACHANDRAN Prophets have always dreamed of living forever. EPHDAN during my worst times on the park benches in the jails or living with whores CHARLES BUKOWSKI Advocacy groups in the USA, as in other countries, may not be able to silence this hateful, cowardly... CHRISTINA ENGELA Dream in colours, for hues are vibrant. Paint each day with a smile. In days of past, do... SOMYA KEDIA Human. Happiness. Death. Everything becomes one pale memory in the flow of time. Spir... ALEXANDAR TOMOV The less you associate with some people, the more your life will improve. Any time you tolerate... COLIN POWELL Art isn't only a painting. Art is anything that's creative, passionate, and personal. And great art ... SETH GODIN Here’s something I bet you don’t know: every time someone writes a story about a dragon CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE How many twenty-second-century bureaucrats did it take to change a light panel? We'll have a su... PETER F. HAMILTON The passenger liner Ossifar Distana was one of the most luxurious of its kind in space anywhere. It ... CHRISTINA ENGELA Windows 7 is on its way to being an obsolete product. Keeping it on your computer long term will lea... STEVEN MAGEE The difference between leader and boss is that leaders set the rule for themselves to take along fol... ANUJ SOMANY you can not understand what i feel for you. because your heart beats for some other one. PRASOON DWIVEDI i am not rich, but my heart is enough rich that you can stay there for the rest of your life. PRASOON DWIVEDI Keeping an eye on own self is an Introspection. JYOTSNAJHA Watching on one’s doing and what he should do for his desires is an Introspection. JYOTSNAJHA We are all but slaves to an ideal ELYMOR JAN B. HERNANDEZ Strength is not a virtue of the strong but an illusion of the weak ELYMOR JAN B. HERNANDEZ Things change, and so do people. 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