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“Usually when you see females in movies, they feel like they have these metallic structures around them, they are caged by male energy.”
― Björk

“I never really understood the word ‘loneliness’. As far as I was concerned, I was in an orgy with the sky and the ocean, and with nature.”
― Bjork

“There are certain emotions in your body that not even your best friend can sympathize with, but you will find the right film or the right book, and it will understand you.”
― Bjork

“Ik dacht aan hoe je mijn hand pakte, tegen je aan legde en zei: Ik ben hier dus gewoon, Onder je hand. Voel je dat?”
― Maartje Wortel, Er moet iets gebeuren

“De onmacht die je voelt wanneer je een pen vasthoudt in de hand waarmee je normaal gesproken niet schrijft, in mijn geval mijn linkerhand; vergelijkbaar met de onmacht die je kunt voelen in sociale situaties, ruzies voorop. Je bent juist uitgerust, fysiek gezien klopt de situatie, maar hoe beweeg je je voort, hoe druk je je uit zonder te gaan trillen?”
― Lieke Marsman, Het tegenovergestelde van een mens

“How many times does a man have to shave before his chin gets the message?
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― Steve Aylett, Slaughtermatic

“I think choosing between men and women is like choosing between cake and ice cream. You'd be daft not to try both when there are so many different flavors.”
― Björk

“Er zijn momenten waarop het lijkt alsof de hele wereld alleen maar met jou bezig is en er zijn momenten waarop je met een schok beseft: er is niemand met mij bezig.”
― Maartje Wortel, Er moet iets gebeuren

“Most of living is waiting to live. And you spend a great deal of time worrying about things that don’t matter and about people that don’t matter and all this is clear to you when you know the very day you’re going to die.”
― Elliott Chaze, Black Wings Has My Angel

“Er gaat iets verloren wanneer je niet wordt begrepen, maar er gaat evenzogoed iets verloren wanneer je wél wordt begrepen.”
― Maartje Wortel, Er moet iets gebeuren

“If you can't dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with bullshit.”
― W.C. Fields

“I don't drink water. Fish fuck in it.”
― W.C. Fields

“Start every day off with a smile and get it over with.”
― W.C. Fields

“Sanity’s a virginity of the mind
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― Steve Aylett, Atom

“Some people are born in the mountains, while others are born by the sea. Some people are happy to live in the place they were born, while others must make a journey to reach the climate in which they can flourish and grow. Between the ocean and the mountains is a wild forest. That is where I want to make my home.”
― Maia Kobabe, Gender Queer: A Memoir

“Don’t walk in front of me… I may not follow
Don’t walk behind me… I may not lead
Walk beside me… just be my friend”
― Albert Camus

“Wat ons miezerige voorstellingsvermogen ons voorschotelt wanneer we denken aan het stoppen van de tijd: een klok met een lege batterij”
― Lieke Marsman, Het tegenovergestelde van een mens

“Ik leefde alsof alles nog ging gebeuren, maar het is al gebeurd.”
― Maartje Wortel, Er moet iets gebeuren

“I hope you'll make mistakes. If you're making mistakes, it means you're out there doing something.”
― Neil Gaiman, Make Good Art

“Van wat een kind leest, onthoudt het maar een deel. Maar dat onthoudt hij ook zo goed, dat het zijn verdere leven met hem meereist, in zijn hart en in zijn bloed, het wordt een stuk van hemzelf.”
― Annie M.G. Schmidt

“Eenzaamheid is een discrepantie, het gat tussen behoefte en bevrediging, tussen de vraag van het gemoed en het aanbod van de omgeving, eenzaamheid is tevens het eindpunt van de evolutie: het resultaat van een o zo ontwikkeld zelfbewustzijn, van het constante besef dat je bestaat - eenzaamheid geen verlangen naar gezelschap, maar een hang naar erkenning, misschien zelfs herkenning, een hunkering naar iemand die jou ziet zoals je jezelf ziet zodat je niet langer bang hoeft te zijn dat je er grandioos naast zit wanneer je je een voorstelling van jezelf maakt.”
― Hanna Bervoets, Fuzzie

“I'll tell you about it because I am here and you are distant.”
― Richard Brautigan, In Watermelon Sugar

“De drang om origineel te zijn, is een van de dingen die ons van andere dieren onderscheidt”
― Hanna Bervoets

“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

“Love

My soul was a light-blue gown, sky-coloured;
I left it on a cliff by the sea
and naked I came to you, resembling a woman.
And like a woman I sat at your table
and drank a toast with wine and breathed in the scent of several roses.
You found me beautiful, resembling something you'd seen dreaming,
I forgot everything, I forgot my childhood and my homeland,
I knew only that your caresses held me captive.
And, smiling, you took up a mirror and bade me look.
I saw that my shoulders were made of dust and crumbled away,
I saw that my beauty was sick and had no desire other than to - disappear.
Oh, hold me close in your arms, so tightly that I need nothing.”
― Edith Södergran, Poems

“Johnny zingt geen liedjes. Johnny is zelf een liedje.”
― Wim Zonneveld

“My Name

“I guess you are kind of curious as to who I am, but I am one of those who do not have a regular name. My name depends on you. Just call me whatever is in your mind.
If you are thinking about something that happened a long time ago: Somebody asked you a question and you did not know the answer.
That is my name.
Perhaps it was raining very hard.
That is my name.
Or somebody wanted you to do something. You did it. Then they told you what you did was wrong—“Sorry for the mistake,”—and you had to do something else.
That is my name.
Perhaps it was a game you played when you were a child or something that came idly into your mind when you were old and sitting in a chair near the window.
That is my name.
Or you walked someplace. There were flowers all around.
That is my name.
Perhaps you stared into a river. There as something near you who loved you. They were about to touch you. You could feel this before it happened. Then it happened.
That is my name.”
― Richard Brautigan, In Watermelon Sugar

“We're just like you,' the other tiger said. 'We speak the same language you do. We think the same thought. But we're tigers.'
'You could help me with arithmetic,' I said.
'What's that?' one of the tigers said.
'My arithmetic.'
'Oh, your arithmetic.'
'Yeah.'
'What do you want to know?' one of the tigers said.
'What's nine times nine?'
'Eighty-one,' a tiger said.
'What's eight times eight?'
'Fifty-six,' a tiger said.
I asked them half of dozen other questions: six times six, seven times four, etc. I was having a lot of trouble with arithmetic. Finally the tigers got bored with my questions and told me to go away.
'OK,' I said. 'I'll go outside.'
'Don't go too far,' one of the tigers said. 'We don't want anyone to come up here and kill us.'
'OK.'
They both went back to eating my parents. I went outside and sat down by the river. 'I'm an orphan,' I said.”
― Richard Brautigan, In Watermelon Sugar

“We call everything a river here. We are that kind of people.”
― Richard Brautigan, In Watermelon Sugar

“Heart weeps.
Head tries to help heart.
Head tells heart how it is, again:
You will lose the ones you love. They will all go. But even the earth will go, someday.
Heart feels better, then.
But the words of head do not remain long in the ears of heart.
Heart is so new to this.
I want them back, says heart.
Head is all heart has.
Help, head. Help heart.”
― Lydia Davis, Varieties of Disturbance