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“They say no one person can do it all
But you want to in your head
But you can't be Shakespeare and you can't be Joyce
So what is left instead
You're stuck with yourself and a rage that can hurt you
You have to start at the beginning again
And just this moment
This wonderful fire started up again
When you pass through humble, when you pass through sickly
When you pass through, I'm better than you all
When you pass through anger and self deprecation
And have the strength to acknowledge it all
When the past makes you laugh and you can savor the magic
That let you survive your own war
You find that that fire is passion
And there's a door up ahead, not a wall
- "Magic And Loss" The Summation”
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But you want to in your head
But you can't be Shakespeare and you can't be Joyce
So what is left instead
You're stuck with yourself and a rage that can hurt you
You have to start at the beginning again
And just this moment
This wonderful fire started up again
When you pass through humble, when you pass through sickly
When you pass through, I'm better than you all
When you pass through anger and self deprecation
And have the strength to acknowledge it all
When the past makes you laugh and you can savor the magic
That let you survive your own war
You find that that fire is passion
And there's a door up ahead, not a wall
- "Magic And Loss" The Summation”
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“Baby," I said, "I’m a genius but nobody knows it but me."
She looked down at me. "Get up off the floor you damn fool and get me a drink.”
― Factotum
She looked down at me. "Get up off the floor you damn fool and get me a drink.”
― Factotum
“Forty-two!" yelled Loonquawl. "Is that all you've got to show for seven and a half million years' work?"
"I checked it very thoroughly," said the computer, "and that quite definitely is the answer. I think the problem, to be quite honest with you, is that you've never actually known what the question is.”
― The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
"I checked it very thoroughly," said the computer, "and that quite definitely is the answer. I think the problem, to be quite honest with you, is that you've never actually known what the question is.”
― The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
“The myriad choices of his fate
Set themselves out upon a plate
For him to choose
What had he to lose”
― Pass Thru Fire: The Collected Lyrics
Set themselves out upon a plate
For him to choose
What had he to lose”
― Pass Thru Fire: The Collected Lyrics
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