Artistic machinery

. The birds have vanished down the sky, Now the last cloud drains away. We sit together, the mountain and me, until only the mountain remains. i slugged two shots of plum brandy, convinced we had wandered back in time

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“Even After All this timeThe Sun never says to the Earth,"You owe me."LookWhat happensWith a love like that,It lights the whole sky.” ―

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“I must be a mermaid, Rango. I have no fear of depths and a great fear of shallow living.” ―

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“Winter is the time for comfort, for good food and warmth, for the touch of a friendly hand and for a talk beside the fire: it is the time for home.” ―

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“I wonder if the snow loves the trees and fields, that it kisses them so gently? And then it covers them up snug, you know, with a white quilt; and perhaps it says, "Go to sleep, darlings, till the summer comes again.” ― , Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass

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“Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.” ―

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“Stepping onto a brand-new path is difficult, but not more difficult than remaining in a situation, which is not nurturing to the whole woman.” ―

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“Augustus Waters was a self-aggrandizing bastard. But we forgive him. We forgive him not because he had a heart as figuratively good as his literal one sucked, or because he knew more about how to hold a cigarette than any nonsmoker in history, or because he got eighteen years when he should've gotten more.''Seventeen,' Gus corrected.'I'm assuming you've got some time, you interupting bastard.'I'm telling you,' Isaac continued, 'Augustus Waters talked so much that he'd interupt you at his own funeral. And he was pretentious: Sweet Jesus Christ, that kid never took a piss without pondering the abundant metaphorical resonances of human waste production. And he was vain: I do not believe I have ever met a more physically attractive person who was more acutely aware of his own physical attractiveness.'But I will say this: When the scientists of the future show up at my house with robot eyes and they tell me to try them on, I will tell the scientists to screw off, because I do not want to see a world without him.'I was kind of crying by then.” ― , The Fault in Our Stars

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“Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.” ―

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“Morning is wonderful. Its only drawback is that it comes at such an inconvenient time of day.” ― , Sweet Silver Blues

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“Is it possible for home to be a person and not a place?” ― , Anna and the French Kiss

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“Augustus Waters was a self-aggrandizing bastard. But we forgive him. We forgive him not because he had a heart as figuratively good as his literal one sucked, or because he knew more about how to hold a cigarette than any nonsmoker in history, or because he got eighteen years when he should've gotten more.''Seventeen,' Gus corrected.'I'm assuming you've got some time, you interupting bastard.'I'm telling you,' Isaac continued, 'Augustus Waters talked so much that he'd interupt you at his own funeral. And he was pretentious: Sweet Jesus Christ, that kid never took a piss without pondering the abundant metaphorical resonances of human waste production. And he was vain: I do not believe I have ever met a more physically attractive person who was more acutely aware of his own physical attractiveness.'But I will say this: When the scientists of the future show up at my house with robot eyes and they tell me to try them on, I will tell the scientists to screw off, because I do not want to see a world without him.'I was kind of crying by then.” ― , The Fault in Our Stars

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“Going to church doesn’t make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an automobile.” ― , , the Man and His Message: With His Own Words Which Have Won Thousands for Christ

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“It's not true that I had nothing on. I had the radio on.” ―

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“A house without books is like a room without windows.” ―

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“I am an excitable person who only understands life lyrically, musically, in whom feelings are much stronger as reason. I am so thirsty for the marvelous that only the marvelous has power over me. Anything I can not transform into something marvelous, I let go. Reality doesn't impress me. I only believe in intoxication, in ecstasy, and when ordinary life shackles me, I escape, one way or another. No more walls.” ―

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“It's not true that I had nothing on. I had the radio on.” ―

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“There are no wrong turnings. Only paths we had not known we were meant to walk.” ― , Tigana