now it’s computers and more computers and soon everybody will have one, 3-year-olds will have computers and everybody will know everything about everybody else long before they meet them. nobody will want to meet anybody else ever again and everybody will be a recluse like I am now.
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Related Everybody sing like it's the last song you will ever sing Tell me, tell me, do you feel the pre... HAYLEY WILLIAMS Everybody knows that the dice are loaded Everybody rolls with their fingers crossed Everyb... LEONARD COHEN there is a place in the heart that will never be filled a space and even ... CHARLES BUKOWSKI So for now, I will miss you like I’ll never see you again, And the next time I see you,<... CHARLOTTE ERIKSSON The line it is drawn The curse it is cast The slow one now Will later be fast As... BOB DYLAN Now I only need to look out at them through my sky-blue eyes. They see their own ill will<... MARGARET ATWOOD Everything I have become, everything I will ever accomplish cannot compare to my most KAMAND KOJOURI I'm Writing my stoy. But i'm also plotting my escape from this prison cell. This is my pl... CAROLEE DEAN And tonight our skin, our bones, that have survived our fathers, will meet, delicate in th... ANNE SEXTON TO ALL MANKIND Speak kind words to mankind and the unkind will attack you.... SUZY KASSEM sometimes when everything seems at its worst when all conspires and gnaws and th... CHARLES BUKOWSKI I think of you often and make no outward show, But what it means to lose you, no one will ... ANON. Everybody is standing, but you must stand out. Everybody is breaking grounds; but you mus... ISRAELMORE AYIVOR There will be time, there will be time To prepare a face to meet the faces that you meet;... T.S. ELIOT alone with everybody the flesh covers the bone and they put a mind in the... CHARLES BUKOWSKI We have traveled. Now you will be the path I will walk I will walk Over you. PETER HELLER Alright! You sir, you sir, how about a shave? Come and visit your good friend Sweeney. You... STEPHEN SONDHEIM Sonnet LXXXI And now you're mine. Rest with your dream in my dream. Love and pain ... PABLO NERUDA I am human and I need to be loved, just like everybody else does. MORRISSEY If we shadows have offended, Think but this, and all is mended, That you have but slumber... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Lovers dream of one more embrace. One more kiss. One act of love, no matter how small. KAMAND KOJOURI Christ, back in Chicago, we don’t make bicycles any more. It’s all human relations now. The... KURT VONNEGUT JR. WORTHY If you ever decide to feel— feel this: I love you. I always have. I a... COCO J. GINGER Now I'm just like everybody else, and it's so funny, the way monogamy is funny, the way<... JEFFREY MCDANIEL Most people write me off when they see me. They do not know my story. They say I am just a... IDOWU KOYENIKAN Look up here, I'm in heaven! I've got scars that can't be seen I've got drama, can't be st... DAVID BOWIE I am not the first person you loved. You are not the first person I looked at with a mouth... CLEMENTINE VON RADICS If you prefer smoke over fire then get up now and leave. For I do not intend to perfume ADYASHANTI Beauty is frightening," they will tell you — Lazily you will arrange A Spani... ALEXANDER BLOK I KNOW I AM CLUELESS, IT DOESN'T MEAN USELESS, MY MOM SAYS I AM BLESSED, EVEN THOUGH ... MERLIN8THOMAS Flowers, cold from the dew, And autumn's approaching breath, I pluck for the warm, luxuria... ANNA AKHMATOVA Forgive the beggar attention is all that’s seeked and in return I never give this ... ISABEL AANYA LEIGH You shall be my roots and I will be your shade, though the sun burns my leaves. MARK Z. DANIELEWSKI I sit before flowers hoping they will train me in the art of opening up I sta... SHANE L. KOYCZAN Everybody knows that the dice are loaded Everybody rolls with their fingers crossed Everyb... LEONARD COHEN To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best day and night to make you l... E.E. CUMMINGS I have become intoxicated again. You are such a potent wine, my friend. To escape your wit... KAMAND KOJOURI better , adj. and adv. Will it ever get better? It better. Will it ever... DAVID LEVITHAN Follow your bliss. If you do follow your bliss, you put yourself on a kind of track t... JOSEPH CAMPBELL Despite everything my mom and doctor and dad have said to me about blame, I can't stop thinking... STEPHEN CHBOSKY In a few minutes nobody will know what I did. Everything will be perfect again. Except for my life.<... PAM BACHORZ The plants and flowers I raised about my hut I now surrender To the will Of the ... RYōKAN It happens all the time in heaven, And some day It will begin to happen Again o... شمس الدین محمد حافظ شیرازی you were and always will be that first ever touch to have fertilized the g... SANOBER KHAN Spilling a Secret What its size, will have varying consequences. It’s not ... ELLEN HOPKINS I promise you I will try harder to be better. I have battled with things ... TYLER KNOTT GREGSON SEA OF LIFE This is not the end, my friend. Just as the ocean sings songs to infinit... SUZY KASSEM I am too alone in the world, and yet not alone enough to make every moment holy. I am too ... RAINER MARIA RILKE When the thunder rumbles, Now the age of gold is dead. When the dreams we've clung to Tryin... LEONARD BERNSTEIN Once upon a time the world was a realm of unanswered questions and there was room in it for poetry. ... JAMES CAMERON (the whole world is at the throat of the world, everybody feels angry, short-changed,... CHARLES BUKOWSKI When I grow up, maybe I will be the first one to circle the sea. Or maybe I will just spen... OLIVER NEUBERT I will never hurt you. I will always help you. If you are hungry Ill give you my food... ORSON SCOTT CARD There will come a time,” I said, “when all of us are dead. All of us. There will come a tim... JOHN GREEN We are Adam and Eve born out of chaos called creation Ribbing me gave you life MEGAN MCCAFFERTY Perhaps ... To R.A.L. Perhaps some day the sun will shine again, And I shall s... VERA BRITTAIN BEWARE OF THOSE Beware of those who are bitter, For they will never allow you T... SUZY KASSEM AGE DIFFERENCE What if I told you that one day you will meet a girl who is unlike anyone ... LANG LEAV Whoever has no house now, will never have one. Whoever is alone will stay alone, will si... RAINER MARIA RILKE a flower knows, when its butterfly will return, and if the moon walks out, the sky will unders... SANOBER KHAN Standing at the edge of time Almost falling down to the dark abyss As I near the end of mi... ISABELLE GUZMAN Why I Cannot Relate "What do you think of this piece?" Someone will ask About some w... KYLEE CARRIER Roads Go Ever On Roads go ever ever on, Over rock and under tree, By caves wher... J.R.R. TOLKIEN Jerusalem! My Love,My Town I wept until my tears were dry I prayed until the candles... نزار قباني And will 'a not come again? And will 'a not come again? No, no, he is dead, Go to ... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE if there are any heavens my mother will(all by herself)have one. It will not be a pansy heaven or... E. E. (EDWARD ESTLIN) CUMMINGS THE FIRST TEN LIES THEY TELL YOU IN HIGH SCHOOL 1. We are here to help you. 2. You... LAURIE HALSE ANDERSON Like a speeding train I am passing by... I don’t know where I’m heading with... SANOBER KHAN as long as there are human beings about there is never going to be any peace for... CHARLES BUKOWSKI A WISH Sometimes I wish that he will live and I will see him. But m... COCO J. GINGER circle back, you're nearly through. The next one, then just one more clue. Summer's comin... MEGAN FRAZER BLAKEMORE Entreat me not to leave thee, Or return from following after thee— For whith... CASSANDRA CLARE You don’t understand,” my dad said. “They stop you.” “Who? What are you talkin... CRISTINA HENRIQUEZ If you want money more than anything, you will be bought and sold. If you have a gre... RUMI and even the trees we walked under seemed less than trees and more like eve... CHARLES BUKOWSKI some winters will never melt some summers will never freeze and some... SANOBER KHAN Come writers and critics Who prophesize with your pen And keep your eyes wide The cha... BOB DYLAN If I never see you again I will always carry you inside outside on my fin... CHARLES BUKOWSKI I believe in love at first sight but I will always believe that the people we l... TYLER KNOTT GREGSON Blue Planet Phenomenon. she’s from the pink planet called Constellation he’s f... R.M. ROMARNEY the one who will jolt awake all the unwritten the unsung and the unlived i... SANOBER KHAN I want to write something so simply about love or about pain that even ... MARY OLIVER I will love you like the desert burns along the sun when they are together, and when you will b... SANHITA BARUAH Why is everything always my decision?" I asked. Because you will not tolerate anything else." LAURELL K. HAMILTON We have bigger houses but smaller families: We have more degrees but less sense; more knowled... DALAI LAMA My mother tells me that when I meet someone I like, I have to ask them three questions: CAITLYN SIEHL A Pause of Thought I looked for that which is not, nor can be, And hope defer... CHRISTINA ROSSETTI In trials of ir'n and silver fain “The dead will rise and walk again “The blesséd few... NENIA CAMPBELL Dad, will they ever come back?" "No. And yes." Dad tucked away his harmonica. "No not the... RAY BRADBURY They want us to be afraid. They want us to be afraid of leaving our homes. They want us ... KAMAND KOJOURI I am sitting far from you A thousand miles away from you I sit and write for you A th... AMIT ABRAHAM I was told The average girl begins to plan her wedding at the age of 7 She picks the color... RUDY FRANCISCO and you invented me and I invented you and that's why we don't get along on this... CHARLES BUKOWSKI We have tears in our eyes As we wave our goodbyes, We so loved being with you, we three. ROALD DAHL She asks why I like her. Might as well ask Why I breathe. Maybe tomorrow I won't GAIL CARSON LEVINE If this turns to friendship, it only means That one of us will suffer. That when we ... CYRIL WONG What will you do now?' I think I will become a monk and devote my entire life to prayer a... DAVID GEMMELL People are not an interruption of our business. People are our business. A man's worst difficulties begin when he is able to do as he likes. It is hard to look up to a leader who keeps his ear to the ground.
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CHARLES BUKOWSKI as long as there are human beings about there is never going to be any peace for... CHARLES BUKOWSKI I have, he went on, betrayed myself with belief, deluded myself with love tricked myself w... CHARLES BUKOWSKI is there any wonder why the world is where it’s at now? just notice the creature sitting near you ... CHARLES BUKOWSKI they thought that writing had something to do with the politics of the thing. CHARLES BUKOWSKI it’s as if he were hiding in there and I want to console him, say: “I am sorry, poor fellow, but... CHARLES BUKOWSKI it is a fine sunny day and great matters loom across the horizon of history. Carthage in my rearview... CHARLES BUKOWSKI I often carry things to read so that I will not have to look at the people. CHARLES BUKOWSKI another hot summer night as I sit here and play at being a writer again. and the worst thing of cour... CHARLES BUKOWSKI Living too long takes more than time CHARLES BUKOWSKI humanity you sick motherfucker. CHARLES BUKOWSKI I look like a man in a death camp. I am. still, I'm lucky: I feat on solitude, ... CHARLES BUKOWSKI Writing is its own intoxication. CHARLES BUKOWSKI if I had a book or a drink then I didn’t think too much of other things—fools create their own p... CHARLES BUKOWSKI But you know, my former life as a bibliophile, it possibly kept me from murdering somebody, myself i... CHARLES BUKOWSKI alone tonight in this house, alone with 6 cats who tell me without effort all that there is to know. CHARLES BUKOWSKI a bird no one wants. he’s mine. my bird of pain. he doesn’t sing. that bird swaying on the bough... CHARLES BUKOWSKI of one hundred movies there's one that is fair, one that's good and ninety eight that are very bad. ... CHARLES BUKOWSKI people are worn away with striving, they hide in common habits. their concerns are herd concerns. fe... CHARLES BUKOWSKI death is walking up and down this room smoking my cigars taking hits of my <... CHARLES BUKOWSKI there was a soldier in the next room living with his wife and he would soon be going over there to p... CHARLES BUKOWSKI I was so thin I could slice bread with my shoulderblades, only I seldom had bread CHARLES BUKOWSKI well, death says, as he walks by, I'm going to get you anyhow no matter what you've been: writer, ca... CHARLES BUKOWSKI not writing is not good but trying to write when you can't is worse. CHARLES BUKOWSKI great books are the ones we need CHARLES BUKOWSKI young or old, good or bad, I don't think anything dies as slow and as hard as a writer. CHARLES BUKOWSKI I could read the great books but the great books don't interest me. CHARLES BUKOWSKI writing about a writer's block is better than not writing at all CHARLES BUKOWSKI I tell you such fine music waits in the shadows of hell. CHARLES BUKOWSKI I often carry things to read so that I will not have to look at the people. CHARLES BUKOWSKI Now we are citizens of nothing. the sun itself knows the sad truth of how we surrendered our lives a... CHARLES BUKOWSKI I was sentimental about many things: a woman’s shoes under the bed; one hairpin left behind on the... CHARLES BUKOWSKI