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Quote #2591 from Love's Not the Way to Treat a Friend by Richard Brautigan

Gabrielle — Thu, 24 May 2012 14:18:13 +0000

I don’t want to see you end up that way
with your body being poured like wounded
marble into the architecture of those who make
bridges out of crippled birds.

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Who Said It?:

Richard Brautigan

Source:

Love's Not the Way to Treat a Friend

Quote #2590 from Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace

Gabrielle — Thu, 24 May 2012 13:25:57 +0000

The truth will set you free. But not until it is finished with you.

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Who Said It?:

David Foster Wallace

Source:

Infinite Jest

Quote #2589 from raw with love by Charles Bukowski

Gabrielle — Thu, 24 May 2012 09:18:05 +0000

and I will remember your small room
the feel of you
the light in the window
your records
your books
our morning coffee
our noons our nights
our bodies spilled together
sleeping
the tiny flowing currents
immediate and forever
your leg my leg
your arm my arm
your smile and the warmth
of you
who made me laugh
again.

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Who Said It?:

Charles Bukowski

Source:

raw with love

Quote #2588 from The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje

Gabrielle — Thu, 24 May 2012 09:14:20 +0000

Her hand touched me at the wrist.
“If I gave you my life, you would drop it. Wouldn’t you?”

I didn’t say anything.

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Who Said It?:

Michael Ondaatje

Source:

The English Patient

Quote #2587

Gabrielle — Thu, 24 May 2012 09:09:06 +0000

And if all that is meaningless, I want to be cured
Of a craving for something I cannot find
And of the shame of never finding it.

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Who Said It?:

T.S. Eliot

Source:

The Cocktail Party

Quote #2586 from letter to Mania Péron (August 28, 1951) from Samuel Beckett

Gabrielle — Thu, 24 May 2012 08:40:00 +0000

Right, off to bed. So as not to sleep. To listen to the darkness, the silence, the solitude and the dead. Another glass.

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Who Said It?:

Samuel Beckett

Source:

The Letters of Samuel Beckett: Volume II, 1941-56

Date Published (if article, journal entry, or letter):

Tuesday, August 28, 1951

Author (Article):

George Craig, Martha Dow Fehsenfeld, Dan Gunn and Lois More Overbeck

Letter Written To:

Mania Péron

Quote #2585 from letter to Robert Pinget (1956) by Samuel Beckett

Gabrielle — Thu, 24 May 2012 08:32:34 +0000

Don’t lose heart: plug yourself into despair and sing it for us.

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Who Said It?:

Samuel Beckett

Source:

The Letters of Samuel Beckett: Volume II, 1941-56

Author (Article):

George Craig, Martha Dow Fehsenfeld, Dan Gunn and Lois More Overbeck

Letter Written To:

Robert Pinget

Quote #2584 from South of the Border, West of the Sun by Haruki Murakami

Gabrielle — Thu, 24 May 2012 08:19:32 +0000

No matter where I go, I still end up me. What’s missing never changes. The scenery may change, but I’m still the same incomplete person. The same missing elements torture me with a hunger that I can never satisfy. I think that lack itself is as close as I’ll come to defining myself.

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Who Said It?:

Haruki Murakami

Source:

South of the Border, West of the Sun

Quote #2583 from oh yes by Charles Bukowski

Gabrielle — Thu, 24 May 2012 08:16:56 +0000

there are worse things than
being alone
but it often takes decades
to realize this
and most often
when you do
it's too late
and there's nothing worse
than
too late.

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Who Said It?:

Charles Bukowski

Source:

oh yes

Quote #2582 from On the Road by Jack Kerouac

Gabrielle — Thu, 24 May 2012 08:06:50 +0000

I didn’t know what to say. I felt like crying, goddammit, everybody in the world wants an explanation for your acts and your very being.

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Who Said It?:

Jack Kerouac

Source:

On The Road