"I'm a suicide. I walked right spang over the edge of life and disappeared. Splash! Bubble-bubble! There goes nothing."

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Source : Samuel Hopkins Adams (1917). “Our Square and the People in it”

Samuel Hopkins Adams

#Suicide Quotes #Over The Edge Quotes #Bubbles Quotes

“What do dogs want? They want each other. Human beings are merely a cynomorphic substitute ...”

Source : Elizabeth Marshall Thomas (1996). “The Hidden Life Of Dogs”, p.134, Simon and Schuster
“It distresses me, this failure to keep pace with the leaders of thought, as they pass into oblivion.”
“Idolatry is huge in the Bible, dominant in our personal lives, and irrelevant in our mistaken estimations”
“Poetry is adolescence fermented, and thus preserved.”
“We talked--recent history only--and Lucas relayed the story of how Francis came to be his roommate. "He showed up at the door one night, demanding to be let in. Napped on the sofa for an hour, then demanded to be let out. It turned into a nightly ritual, with him staying longer and longer, until at some point I realized he'd moved in. He's basically the most brazen squatter ever.”
“For everyone, there are those moments when you have great days with someone you wouldn't expect to. Then you have to go back to your real lives, but it makes an impression on you.”

Source : "Decade: Sofia Coppola on 'Lost in Translation'" by Peter Knegt, www.indiewire.com. December 14, 2009.
“I think the most important thing in life is self-love, because if you don't have self-love, and respect for everything about your own body, your own soul, your own capsule, then how can you have an authentic relationship with anyone else?”
“You can find poetry in your everyday life, your memory, in what people say on the bus, in the news, or just what's in your heart.”

Source : "Carol Ann Duffy: 'Poetry is in your everyday life, your memory, in what people say on the bus .. or just what's in your heart'". www.mirror.co.uk. May 2, 2009.

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