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Quotes of the day from previous years:
I'm searching for a heart, Searching everyone. They say love conquers all. You can't start it like a car, You can't stop it with a gun. |
~ Warren Zevon ~ |
In spite of illness, in spite even of the archenemy sorrow, one can remain alive long past the usual date of disintegration if one is unafraid of change, insatiable in intellectual curiosity, interested in big things, and happy in small ways. |
~ Edith Wharton ~ |
I warrant you, if he danced till doomsday, he thought I was to pay the piper. |
~ William Congreve ~ |
It was part of her discernment to be aware that life is the only real counselor, that wisdom unfiltered through personal experience does not become a part of the moral tissues. |
~ Edith Wharton ~ |
We contemplate eternity Beneath the vast indifference of heaven. |
~ Warren Zevon ~ |
Light is the left hand of darkness and darkness the right hand of light. Two are one, life and death, lying together like lovers in kemmer, like hands joined together, like the end and the way. |
~ Ursula K. Le Guin ~ |
When I was young, times were hard. When I got older it was worse. |
~ Warren Zevon ~ |
If we don’t have an informed electorate we don’t have a democracy. So I don’t care how people get the information, as long as they get it. I’m just doing it my particular way and I feel lucky I can do it the way I want to do it. |
~ Jim Lehrer ~ |
If you have passion, a chip on the shoulder, a sense of humor, and you can explain what you do very well, it doesn't matter if you're a plumber or a singer or a politician. If you have those four things, you are interesting. |
~ Larry King ~ |
I turned on the news to the Third World War, Opened up the paper to World War IV. Just when I thought it was safe to be bored, Trouble waiting to happen. |
~ Warren Zevon ~ |
Let us be very strange and well-bred: Let us be as strange as if we had been married a great while; And as well-bred as if we were not married at all. |
~ William Congreve ~ |
If you don't want to be replaced by a machine, don't try to act like one! |
~ Arno Allan Penzias ~ |
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Well, first of all, let me say that I might have made a tactical error in not going to a physician for 20 years. It was one of those phobias that really didn’t pay off. — (Warren Zevon b. 1/24/47 - d. 9/7/03 interview on "Late Show with David Letterman")
When people ask for time, it's always for time to say no. ~ Edith Wharton
After all, one knows one's weak points so well, that it's rather bewildering to have the critics overlook them & invent others that (one is fairly sure) don't exist — or exist in a less measure. ~ Edith Wharton
Enjoy every sandwich. ~ Warren Zevon
I honestly don't understand the big fuss made over nudity and sex in films. It's silly. On TV, the children can watch people murdering each other, which is a very unnatural thing, but they can't watch two people in the very natural process of making love. Now, really, that doesn't make any sense, does it? |
~ Sharon Tate ~ |
Now will I, in my old way, discover the whole and real truth of the matter to him, that he may not suspect one word on’t. No mask like open truth to cover lies, |
~ William Congreve ~ |
Thou art a retailer of phrases, and dost deal in remnants of remnants, like a maker of pincushions; thou art in truth (metaphorically speaking) a speaker of shorthand. |
~ William Congreve ~ |
No insect hangs its nest on threads as frail as those which will sustain the weight of human vanity. |
~ Edith Wharton ~ |
The worst of doing one's duty was that it apparently unfitted one for doing anything else. |
~ Edith Wharton ~ |
Life'll kill ya, That's what I said. Life'll kill ya, Then you'll be dead. Life'll find ya Wherever you go. Requiescat in pace That's all she wrote. |
~ Warren Zevon ~ |
I write songs about things that I'm simultaneously trying to not think about. |
~ Warren Zevon ~ |
Except in dreams, you're never really free. |
~ Warren Zevon ~ |
I wrote my songs despite the fact that I was a drunk, not because of it. |
~ Warren Zevon ~ |
We made mad love: Shadow love, Random love, And abandoned love. Accidentally like a martyr. The hurt gets worse and the heart gets harder |
~ Warren Zevon ~ |
Well, I went home with the waitress The way I always do How was I to know She was with the Russians, too |
~ Warren Zevon ~ |
I'm the innocent bystander Somehow I got stuck Between the rock and the hard place And I'm down on my luck |
~ Warren Zevon ~ |
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