"Just like that. Gone forever. They will not grow old together. They will never live on a beach by the sea, their hair turned white, dancing in a living room to Billie Holiday or Nat Cole. They will not enter a New York club at midnight and show the poor hip-hop fools how to dance. They will not chuckle together over the endless folly of the world, its vanities and stupid ambitions. They will not hug each other in any chilly New York dawn. Oh, Mary Lou. My baby. My love."

-- Pete Hamill

#Baby Quotes #Beach Quotes #New York Quotes

“No such word as can't. No such word as babagoozle neither!”
“All life's battles teach us something, even those we lose. When you grow up, you'll discover that you have defended lies, deceived yourself, or suffered foolishness. If you're a good warrior you will not blame yourself for this, but neither will you allow your mistakes to repeat themselves.”
“So for front-runners we have a black and a woman. It's like being made to choose between syphilis or having and old man crap on your face. I would do the country a favor and run myself but I couldn't deprive Hollywood of me for 4 years.”
“That is not dead which can eternal lie, And with strange aeons even death may die.”

Source : H. P. Lovecraft (2016). “THE WEIRD TALES of H. P. Lovecraft: At the Mountains of Madness, The Call of Cthulhu, The Whisperer in Darkness, The Shunned House, The Outsider, Pickmanäó»s Model, The Picture in the House, The Templeäó_: The Greatest Tales of Horror & Macabre: The Cats of Ulthar, The Shadow over Innsmouth, The Colour Out of Space, The Horror at Red Hook, The Strange High House in the Mist, From Beyond, Dagonäó_”, p.261, e-artnow
“I played lots of fantasy games. I would create these worlds, and I would believe in them.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Men endowed with a wild imagination should have, in addition, the great poetic faculty of denying our universe and its values so that they may act upon it with sovereign ease.”
“I'm not super comfortable in my skin. I have to make it work for me, and that usually amounts to making it uncomfortable for everyone else.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I understand that I have become a liability to the very institutions and policies to which I have dedicated my career and, indeed, my entire adult life.”

Source : "Embattled Oregon Governor Says He Will Resign". "Weekend Edition Saturday", www.npr.org. February 14, 2015.

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