"We control the content of our dreams."

--

Thom Gunn

“In every sorrowing soul I pour'd delight, And poverty stood smiling in my sight.”
“I brought you the truth about our city and the reason we are in it. If you aren't thanking me for it, you should at least do something about it instead of sitting here on this mess you made, pretending it's a throne!”
“All the wonders you seek are within yourself. We should seek to discover our own special light. Know how to live within yourself; there in your soul lives a whole world of mysterious and enchanted thoughts; they will be drowned by noise of this world. Be still and listen to their singing and be silent.”
“I noticed when I was writing the book that I would tend to mention 'outside' songs right through to about the middle of the 70's. And then all of a sudden that starts disappearing from the book, and just about everything I'm talking about from that point on are the records that I'm totally involved in.”
“I literally in the New York flea market - just when I was despairing of ever having a great serendipitous find - found a 1926 Chanel.”

Source : "A life in Vogue: Hamish Bowles". Interview with Wendy Donahue, www.chicagotribune.com. May 16, 2014.
“Trust the story ... the storyteller may dissemble and deceive, the story can't: the story can only ever be itself.”
“In my food world, there is no fear or guilt, only joy and balance. So no ingredient is ever off-limits. Rather, all of the recipes here follow my Usually-Sometimes-Rarely philosophy. Notice there is no Never.”
“Always regret the things you did do, never the things you didn't.”

Source : Dorothy Koomson (2008). “The Cupid Effect”, p.68, Hachette UK

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