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“All goes onward and outward, nothing collapses,
And to die is different from what any one supposed, and luckier.”
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And to die is different from what any one supposed, and luckier.”
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“Even as a junkie I stayed true [to vegetarianism] - 'I shall have heroin, but I shan't have a hamburger.' What a sexy little paradox.”
― My Booky Wook
― My Booky Wook
“To be a poet is a condition, not a profession.”
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“O momentary grace of mortal men,
Which we more hunt for than the grace of God!
Who builds his hopes in air of your good looks,
Lives like a drunken sailor on a mast,
Ready, with every nod, to tumble down
Into the fatal bowels of the deep.”
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Which we more hunt for than the grace of God!
Who builds his hopes in air of your good looks,
Lives like a drunken sailor on a mast,
Ready, with every nod, to tumble down
Into the fatal bowels of the deep.”
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“At some point during almost every romantic comedy, the female lead suddenly trips and falls, stumbling helplessly over something ridiculous like a leaf, and then some Matthew McConaughey type either whips around the corner just in the nick of time to save her or is clumsily pulled down along with her. That event predictably leads to the magical moment of their first kiss. Please. I fall ALL the time. You know who comes and gets me? The bouncer.”
― My Horizontal Life: A Collection of One-Night Stands
― My Horizontal Life: A Collection of One-Night Stands
Melanie’s 2025 Year in Books
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