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  • #1
    Dawn Powell
    “Hold fast to whatever fragments of love that exist, for sometimes a mosaic is more beautiful than an unbroken pattern.”
    Dawn Powell

  • #2
    Dawn Powell
    “Satire is people as they are; romanticism, people as they would like to be; realism, people as they seem with their insides left out.”
    Dawn Powell

  • #3
    Dawn Powell
    “The human comedy is always tragic, but since its ingredients are always the same—dupe, fox, straight, like burlesque skits—the repetition through the ages is comedy.”
    Dawn Powell

  • #4
    Bernard M. Baruch
    “Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.”
    Bernard M. Baruch

  • #5
    Henry Van Dyke
    “Time is
    Too Slow for those who Wait,
    Too Swift for those who Fear,
    Too Long for those who Grieve,
    Too Short for those who Rejoice;
    But for those who Love,
    Time is not.”
    Henry van Dyke, Music and Other Poems

  • #6
    Oscar Wilde
    “If you are not long, I will wait for you all my life.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #7
    Pablo Neruda
    “If You Forget Me

    I want you to know
    one thing.

    You know how this is:
    if I look
    at the crystal moon, at the red branch
    of the slow autumn at my window,
    if I touch
    near the fire
    the impalpable ash
    or the wrinkled body of the log,
    everything carries me to you,
    as if everything that exists,
    aromas, light, metals,
    were little boats
    that sail
    toward those isles of yours that wait for me.

    Well, now,
    if little by little you stop loving me
    I shall stop loving you little by little.

    If suddenly
    you forget me
    do not look for me,
    for I shall already have forgotten you.

    If you think it long and mad,
    the wind of banners
    that passes through my life,
    and you decide
    to leave me at the shore
    of the heart where I have roots,
    remember
    that on that day,
    at that hour,
    I shall lift my arms
    and my roots will set off
    to seek another land.

    But
    if each day,
    each hour,
    you feel that you are destined for me
    with implacable sweetness,
    if each day a flower
    climbs up to your lips to seek me,
    ah my love, ah my own,
    in me all that fire is repeated,
    in me nothing is extinguished or forgotten,
    my love feeds on your love, beloved,
    and as long as you live it will be in your arms
    without leaving mine.”
    Pablo Neruda

  • #8
    “I knew I loved you before I met you
    I think I dreamed you into life
    I knew I loved you before I met you
    I have been waiting all my life”
    Savage Garden

  • #9
    Tom Waits
    “I like beautiful melodies telling me terrible things.”
    Tom Waits

  • #10
    “On Writing: Aphorisms and Ten-Second Essays

    1. A beginning ends what an end begins.

    2. The despair of the blank page: it is so full.

    3. In the head Art’s not democratic. I wait a long time to be a writer good enough even for myself.

    4. The best time is stolen time.

    5. All work is the avoidance of harder work.

    6. When I am trying to write I turn on music so I can hear what is keeping me from hearing.

    7. I envy music for being beyond words. But then, every word is beyond music.

    8. Why would we write if we’d already heard what we wanted to hear?

    9. The poem in the quarterly is sure to fail within two lines: flaccid, rhythmless, hopelessly dutiful. But I read poets from strange languages with freedom and pleasure because I can believe in all that has been lost in translation. Though all works, all acts, all languages are already translation.

    10. Writer: how books read each other.

    11. Idolaters of the great need to believe that what they love cannot fail them, adorers of camp, kitsch, trash that they cannot fail what they love.

    12. If I didn’t spend so much time writing, I’d know a lot more. But I wouldn’t know anything.

    13. If you’re Larkin or Bishop, one book a decade is enough. If you’re not? More than enough.

    14. Writing is like washing windows in the sun. With every attempt to perfect clarity you make a new smear.

    15. There are silences harder to take back than words.

    16. Opacity gives way. Transparency is the mystery.

    17. I need a much greater vocabulary to talk to you than to talk to myself.

    18. Only half of writing is saying what you mean. The other half is preventing people from reading what they expected you to mean.

    19. Believe stupid praise, deserve stupid criticism.

    20. Writing a book is like doing a huge jigsaw puzzle, unendurably slow at first, almost self-propelled at the end. Actually, it’s more like doing a puzzle from a box in which several puzzles have been mixed. Starting out, you can’t tell whether a piece belongs to the puzzle at hand, or one you’ve already done, or will do in ten years, or will never do.

    21. Minds go from intuition to articulation to self-defense, which is what they die of.

    22. The dead are still writing. Every morning, somewhere, is a line, a passage, a whole book you are sure wasn’t there yesterday.

    23. To feel an end is to discover that there had been a beginning. A parenthesis closes that we hadn’t realized was open).

    24. There, all along, was what you wanted to say. But this is not what you wanted, is it, to have said it?”
    James Richardson

  • #11
    Rabindranath Tagore
    “Love's gift cannot be given, it waits to be accepted.”
    Rabindranath Tagore
    tags: love

  • #12
    Jamie McGuire
    “You know why I want you? I didn’t know I was lost until you found me. I didn’t know what alone was until the first night I spent without you in my bed. You’re the one thing I’ve got right. You’re what I’ve been waiting for, Pigeon.”
    Jamie McGuire, Beautiful Disaster

  • #13
    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “Do you ever wait for the longest day of the year and then miss it? I always wait for the longest day of the year and then miss it!”
    F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

  • #14
    Ilona Andrews
    “Have you ever met someone and felt . . . I don't know how to describe it, felt a chance at having something that eluded you? I don't know . . . Forget I said anything."
    I knew what he meant. He was describing that moment when you realize that you are lonely. For a time you can be alone and doing fine and never give a thought to living any other way and then you meet someone and suddenly you become lonely. It stabs at you, almost like a physical pain, and you feel both deprived and angry, deprived because you wish to be with that person and angry, because their absence brings you misery. It's a strange feeling, akin to desperation, a feeling that makes you wait by the phone even though you know that the call is an hour away. I was not going to lose my balance. Not yet.”
    Ilona Andrews, Magic Bites

  • #15
    Simone Elkeles
    “Nobody really knows her
    Except the chosen few
    Her secrets are kept hidden
    Behind that sun-kissed hue.

    If I reach out to touch her
    She’ll just run away
    My Forever and Always
    Will have to wait another day.”
    Simone Elkeles, Chain Reaction

  • #16
    Oscar Wilde
    “When you really want love, you will find it waiting for you.”
    Oscar Wilde, De Profundis

  • #17
    Jacqueline Carey
    “Stand at the crossroads if you will, but if you'll not choose, I'll move on without you”
    Jacqueline Carey, Kushiel's Dart

  • #18
    Jess C. Scott
    “I envy people that know love. That have someone who takes them as they are.”
    Jess C Scott, The Devilin Fey

  • #19
    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “Sometimes it is harder to deprive oneself of a pain than of a pleasure.”
    F. Scott Fitzgerald

  • #20
    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “mother says that two souls are sometimes created together and--and in love before they're born.”
    F. Scott Fitzgerald

  • #21
    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “Draw your chair up close to the edge of the precipice and I’ll tell you a story.”
    F. Scott Fitzgerald

  • #22
    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “An artist is someone who can hold two opposing viewpoints and still remain fully functional.”
    F. Scott Fitzgerald

  • #23
    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “So we'll just let things take their course, and never be sorry.”
    F. Scott Fitzgerald, Benediction

  • #24
    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “It seemed that the only lover she had ever wanted was a lover in a dream.”
    F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned

  • #25
    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “She smiled, a moving childish smile that was like all the lost youth in the world.”
    F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender Is the Night

  • #26
    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “What people are ashamed of usually makes a good story.”
    F Scott Fitzgerald

  • #27
    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “One should . . . be able to see things as hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise.”
    F. Scott Fitzgerald

  • #28
    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “I won’t kiss you. It might get to be a habit and I can’t get rid of habits.”
    F. Scott Fitzgerald, Flappers and Philosophers

  • #29
    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “Nancy had a mouth like a remembered kiss...”
    F. Scott Fitzgerald

  • #30
    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “In a real dark night of the soul it is always three o'clock in the morning, day after day.”
    F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Crack-Up



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