“I’ve been fighting to be who I am all my life. What’s the point of being who I am, if I can’t have the person who was worth all the fighting for?”
― I Don't Remember You
― I Don't Remember You
“When we face pain in relationships our first response is often to sever bonds rather than to maintain commitment.
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― All About Love: New Visions
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― All About Love: New Visions
“I like my relationships like I like my eggs. Over easy.”
― It Occurred to Me
― It Occurred to Me
“Man, when you lose your laugh you lose your footing.”
― One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
― One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
“The truly creative mind in any field is no more than this: A human creature born abnormally, inhumanly sensitive. To him... a touch is a blow, a sound is a noise, a misfortune is a tragedy, a joy is an ecstasy, a friend is a lover, a lover is a god, and failure is death. Add to this cruelly delicate organism the overpowering necessity to create, create, create -- so that
without the creating of music or poetry or books or buildings or something of meaning, his very breath is cut off from him. He must create, must pour out creation. By some strange, unknown, inward urgency he is not really alive unless he is creating.”
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without the creating of music or poetry or books or buildings or something of meaning, his very breath is cut off from him. He must create, must pour out creation. By some strange, unknown, inward urgency he is not really alive unless he is creating.”
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