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  • #1
    Leonard Cohen
    “It’s a pity if someone… has to console himself for the wreck of his days with the notion that somehow his voice, his work embodies the deepest, most obscure, freshest, rawest oyster of reality in the unfathomable refrigerator of the heart’s ocean, but I am such a one, and there you have it.”
    Leonard Cohen, Stranger Music: Selected Poems and Songs

  • #2
    Nora Ephron
    “Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim.”
    Nora Ephron

  • #3
    Nora Ephron
    “Insane people are always sure that they are fine. It is only the sane people who are willing to admit that they are crazy.”
    Nora Ephron

  • #4
    Nora Ephron
    “So much of what I see reminds me of something I read in a book, when shouldn't it be the other way around?”
    Nora Ephron

  • #5
    Nora Ephron
    “... the state of rapture I experience when I read a wonderful book
    is one of the main reasons I read;
    but it doesn't happen every time
    or even every other time,
    and when it does happen,
    I am truly beside myself.


    Nora Ephron

  • #6
    Nora Ephron
    “[W]hen you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible.”
    Nora Ephron, When Harry Met Sally

  • #7
    Nora Ephron
    “Reading makes me feel I've accomplished something, learned something, become a better person. ... Reading is bliss.”
    Nora Ephron

  • #8
    Nora Ephron
    “Well, it was a million tiny little things that, when you added them all up, they meant we were supposed to be together... and I knew it. I knew it the very first time I touched her. It was like coming home... only to no home I'd ever known... I was just taking her hand to help her out of a car and I knew. It was like... magic.
    - Sleepless in Seattle”
    Nora Ephron

  • #9
    Leonard Cohen
    “There is a crack in everything.
    That's how the light gets in.”
    Leonard Cohen, Selected Poems, 1956-1968

  • #10
    Leonard Cohen
    “The last refuge of the insomniac is a sense of superiority to the sleeping world.”
    Leonard Cohen

  • #11
    Leonard Cohen
    “And I'll dance with you in Vienna,
    I'll be wearing a river's disguise.
    The hyacinth wild on my shoulder
    my mouth on the dew of your thighs.
    And I'll bury my soul in a scrapbook,
    with the photographs there and the moss.
    And I'll yield to the flood of your beauty,
    my cheap violin and my cross.”
    Leonard Cohen, Stranger Music: Selected Poems and Songs

  • #12
    Leonard Cohen
    “so much of the world is plunged in darkness and chaos...

    So ring the bells that still can ring
    Forget your perfect offering
    There is a crack in everything
    That’s how the light gets in.”
    Leonard Cohen

  • #13
    Leonard Cohen
    “Show me slowly what I only
    know the limits of
    Dance me to the end of love”
    Leonard Cohen, Leonard Cohen: Poems and Songs

  • #14
    Leonard Cohen
    “Now Suzanne takes your hand
    and she leads you to the river
    She is wearing rags and feathers
    from Salvation Army counters
    And the sun pours down like honey
    on our lady of the harbour
    And she shows you where to look
    among the garbage and the flowers”
    leonard cohen

  • #15
    Leonard Cohen
    “Suzanne takes you down to her place near the river
    You can hear the boats go by
    You can spend the night beside her
    And you know that she's half crazy
    But that's why you want to be there
    And she feeds you tea and oranges
    That come all the way from China
    And just when you mean to tell her
    That you have no love to give her
    Then she gets you on her wavelength
    And she lets the river answer”
    Leonard Cohen, Stranger Music: Selected Poems and Songs

  • #16
    Leonard Cohen
    “Here's to the few who forgive what you do, and the fewer who don't even care”
    Leonard Cohen

  • #17
    Leonard Cohen
    “Dance me to your beauty with a burning violin
    Dance me through the panic 'til I'm gathered safely in
    Lift me like an olive branch and be my homeward dove
    Dance me to the end of love ”
    Leonard Cohen

  • #18
    Leonard Cohen
    “Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash.”
    Leonard Cohen

  • #19
    Leonard Cohen
    “Ring the bells that still can ring
    Forget your perfect offering
    There is a crack in everything
    That's how the light gets in.”
    Leonard Cohen

  • #20
    Leonard Cohen
    “Reality is one of the possibilities I cannot afford to ignore”
    Leonard Cohen, Beautiful Losers

  • #21
    Leonard Cohen
    “I have tried in my way to be free.”
    Leonard Cohen

  • #22
    Leonard Cohen
    “The older I get, the surer I am that I’m not running the show.”
    Leonard Cohen

  • #23
    Leonard Cohen
    “In streams of light I clearly saw
    The dust you seldom see,
    Out of which the Nameless makes
    A Name for one like me...
    All busy in the sunlight
    The flecks did float and dance,
    And I was tumbled up with them
    In formless circumstance.”
    Leonard Cohen

  • #24
    Leonard Cohen
    “My friends are gone and my hair is grey.
    I ache in places I used to play.
    And I’m crazy for love but I’m not coming on.
    I’m just paying my rent every day in the tower of song.”
    Leonard Cohen, Dance Me to the End of Love

  • #25
    Leonard Cohen
    “We are not mad. We are human.We want to love, and someone must forgive us for the paths we take to love, for the paths are many and dark, and we are ardent and cruel in our journey.”
    Leonard Cohen, Leonard Cohen: Poems and Songs

  • #26
    Leonard Cohen
    “Your faith was strong, but you needed proof...”
    Leonard Cohen

  • #27
    Stephen  King
    “That wasn't any act of God. That was an act of pure human fuckery.”
    Stephen King, The Stand

  • #28
    Stephen  King
    “Show me a man or a woman alone and I'll show you a saint. Give me two and they'll fall in love. Give me three and they'll invent the charming thing we call 'society'. Give me four and they'll build a pyramid. Give me five and they'll make one an outcast. Give me six and they'll reinvent prejudice. Give me seven and in seven years they'll reinvent warfare. Man may have been made in the image of God, but human society was made in the image of His opposite number, and is always trying to get back home.”
    Stephen King , The Stand

  • #29
    Stephen  King
    “The place where you made your stand never mattered. Only that you were there...and still on your feet.”
    Stephen King, The Stand

  • #30
    Stephen  King
    “The beauty of religious mania is that it has the power to explain everything. Once God (or Satan) is accepted as the first cause of everything which happens in the mortal world, nothing is left to chance...logic can be happily tossed out the window.”
    Stephen King, The Stand



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