Exam Time

Apologies for my tardiness. I was hoping I could continue updating this website during my exam time, but apparently I'm not that good yet. Wish me luck. I'll be adding quotes again by the 10th of May.

A student who changes the course of history is probably taking an exam.

[ 25 April 2005 1:03 pm submitted by Unknown | 0 comments | Post your own? ]

Our Last Century

I regard the two major male archetypes in 20th Century literature as Leopold Bloom and Hannibal Lecter, M.D. Bloom, the perpetual victim, the kind and gentle fellow who finishes last, represented an astonishing breakthrough to new levels of realism in the novel, and also symbolized the view of humanity that hardly anybody could deny c. 1900-1950. History, sociology, economics, psychology et al. confirmed Joyce’s view of Everyman as victim. Bloom, exploited and downtrodden by the Brits for being Irish and rejected by many of the Irish for being Jewish, does indeed epiphanize humanity in the first half of the 20th Century. And he remains a nice guy despite everything that happens...

Dr Lecter, my candidate for the male archetype of 1951-2000, will never win any Nice Guy awards, I fear, but he symbolizes our age as totally as Bloom symbolized his. Hannibal’s wit, erudition, insight into others, artistic sensitivity, scientific knowledge etc. make him almost a walking one man encyclopedia of Western civilization. As for his “hobbies” as he calls them -- well, according to the World Game Institute, since the end of World War II, in which 60,000,000 human beings were murdered by other human beings, 193, 000,000 more humans have been murdered by other humans in brush wars, revolutions, insurrections etc. What better symbol of our age than a serial killer? Hell, can you think of any recent U.S. President who doesn’t belong in the Serial Killer Hall of Fame? And their motives make no more sense, and no less sense, than Dr Lecter’s Darwinian one-man effort to rid the planet of those he finds outstandingly loutish and uncouth.

[ 23 April 2005 12:39 am submitted by Unknown | 1 comments | Post your own? ]

Maybe that's family

You'll see when you move out, it just sort of happens one day - one day and it's just gone. And you can never get it back. It's like you get homesick for a place that doesn't exist. I mean, it's like this rite of passage, you know. You won't have this feeling again until you create a new idea of home for yourself, you know, for your kids, for the family you start, it's like a cycle or something. I miss the idea of it. Maybe that's all family really is. A group of people who miss the same imaginary place.

[ 22 April 2005 3:37 am submitted by Unknown | 0 comments | Post your own? ]

Belated apologies?

Lovers and madmen have such seething brains, such shaping fantasies, that apprehend more than cool reason ever comprehends.

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Life, a still portrait

For all species, including our own, the true figure of life is a perching bird, a passerine, alert and nervous in every part, ready to dart off in an instant. Life is always poised for flight. From a distance it looks still, silhouetted against the bright sky or the dark ground; but up close it is flitting this way and that, as if displaying to the world at every moment its perpetual readiness to take off in any of a thousand directions.

[ 20 April 2005 8:19 pm submitted by Unknown | 0 comments | Post your own? ]

Laughter

Dogs laugh, but they laugh with their tails. What puts man in a higher state of evolution is that he has got his laugh on the right end.

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Work and freedom

If a man does only what is required of him, he is a slave. If a man does more than is required of him, he is a free man.

[ 18 April 2005 6:46 pm submitted by Unknown | 0 comments | Post your own? ]

Lose Sight of Shore

One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.

[ 17 April 2005 9:20 pm submitted by Unknown | 0 comments | Post your own? ]

Regrets? No way.

Never regret. If it's good, it's wonderful. If it's bad, it's experience.

[ 16 April 2005 10:22 pm submitted by Unknown | 0 comments | Post your own? ]

Reaping Destiny

Sow an act, and you reap a habit. Sow a habit and you reap a character. Sow a character, and you reap a destiny.

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T.T.T.

Put up in a place
where it's easy to see
the cryptic admonishment

T.T.T.

When you feel how depressingly
slowly you climb,
it's well to remember that

Things Take Time.

[ 15 April 2005 1:39 am submitted by Unknown | 1 comments | Post your own? ]

Strawberry Fields Forever

Living is easy with eyes closed
Misunderstanding all you see
It's getting hard to be someone, but it's alright
It doesn't matter much to me

[ 13 April 2005 11:36 pm submitted by Unknown | 0 comments | Post your own? ]

Lies and Excuses

An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie, for an excuse is a lie guarded.

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Naive and lovin' it

Dare to be naive.

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War

Humanity should question itself, once more, about the absurd and always unfair phenomenon of war, on whose stage of death and pain only remain standing the negotiating table that could and should have prevented it.

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Feel The Pain

Many of us spend our whole lives running from feeling with the mistaken belief that you cannot bear the pain. But you have already borne the pain. What you have not done is feel all you are beyond that pain.

[ 11 April 2005 3:06 am submitted by Unknown | 0 comments | Post your own? ]

True Religion

It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business.

[ 10 April 2005 2:40 pm submitted by Unknown | 0 comments | Post your own? ]

Poetry on Microsoft and Software Patents

Oh, I'm
sure
that MS
would
make
their
patent
all fruity
and
call it
a kiwi,
with sufficient
sophistry
to stand erect
in court.

[ 09 April 2005 3:06 am submitted by Unknown | 0 comments | Post your own? ]

Writing.

You can approach the act of writing with nervousness, excitement, hopefulness, or even despair -- the sense that you can never completely put on the page what's in your mind and heart. You can come to the act with your fists clenched and your eyes narrowed, ready to kick ass and take down names. You can come to it because you want a girl to marry you or because you want to change the world. Come to it any way but lightly. Let me say it again: you must not come lightly to the blank page.

[ 08 April 2005 10:11 pm submitted by Unknown | 0 comments | Post your own? ]

Despair? What despair?

Do not abandon yourselves to despair. We are the Easter people and hallelujah is our song.

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Each Day By Itself

Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be cumbered with your old nonsense.

[ 06 April 2005 11:47 pm submitted by Unknown | 0 comments | Post your own? ]

Dancing to a Song of Heartbreak

All our young lives we search for someone to love. Someone who makes us complete. We chose partners and change partners. We dance to a song of heartbreak and hope all the while, wondering if somewhere and somehow, there is someone searching for us.

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Never Underestimate A Good Conflict

In Italy for thirty years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love; they had five hundred years of democracy and peace and what did they produce? The cuckoo clock.

[ 04 April 2005 3:15 pm submitted by Unknown | 0 comments | Post your own? ]

To a life well lived

Have no fear of moving into the unknown. Simply step out fearlessly knowing that I am with you, therefore no harm can befall you; all is very, very well. Do this in complete faith and confidence.

[ 03 April 2005 4:54 am submitted by Unknown | 0 comments | Post your own? ]