October 2009
“There are moments in life, when the heart is so full of emotion that if by...”
– Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
“We’re so helpless
We’re slaves to our impulses
We’re afraid...”
– Feist
“The sense of tragedy - according to Aristotle - comes, ironically enough, not...”
– ‘Kafka on the Shore’ by Haruki Murakami
“Change isn’t easy… changing the way you live means changing what you...”
– Dean Koontz
“You give me miles and miles of mountains
And I’ll ask for the sea…”
– Damien Rice
“Nothing is original. Steal from anywhere that resonates with inspiration or...”
– Jim Jarmusch
So many good films...
…this Autumn/ Winter!! I’ve already watched ‘Away We Go’ (which was fabulous) & ‘The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus’ (which I was a bit dissapointed by)… still have to see ‘Fantastic Mr Fox’ :) & the list of films to watch just gets bigger ‘An Education’ (coming of age drama written by Nick Hornby set in 1960s London)… ‘Bright Star’ (about the love-life of John Keats - love the...
“The best moments in reading are when you come across something - a thought, a...”
– The History Boys: The Film
“Memory cannot be understood, either, without a mathematical approach. The fundamental given is the ratio between the amount of time in the lived life and the amount of time from that life that is stored in memory. No one has ever tried to calculate this ratio, and in fact there exists no technique for doing so; yet without much risk of error I could assume that the memory retains no more...
‘Soon We’ll Be Found’ by Sia
...
“Because we separate like ripples on a blank shore
(In rainbows, In rainbows)...”
– Radiohead
“My tongue will tell the anger of my heart, or else my heart concealing it will...”
– William Shakespeare
“If I can make you stay
Convince you you’d be lost
if we were torn apart...”
– Rachael Yamagata
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– e.e. cummings
This is amazing!
I can hear the sky roaring. I can feel the wedge, inside of me, between me and other people. Sometimes, it’s only a faint rumble in the distance, a memory. But then it grows stronger, fighting its way through my mind, clouding my heart, everything is suddenly dark that was light before. Perhaps November is too close, old wounds don’t heal better in shadows that are days.
“There is neither happiness nor unhappiness in this world; there is only the...”
– ‘The Count of Monte Cristo’ by Alexandre Dumas
“It is a curious thing, the death of a loved one. We all know that our time in...”
– Lemony Snicket
“Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.”
– Anaïs Nin 