"Gwynn, she was always talking about wanting to be drunk and honestly I did want to encourage that, I wanted to go to a bar with her and let all the stuff sobriety pushed down be released so I could catch it in my palms and finally kiss her. She was just so sad. Melancholy was a fleshy wave permanently cresting on her face, she had to speak through it when she talked."

-- Michelle Tea

#Kissing Quotes #Talking Quotes #Drunk Quotes

“Certainly, the history of my life and the works of art which have especially enriched it is precisely that: the depiction or incantation of a handful of metaphors whose spendour rests upon their intonation.”

Source : Michael Ayrton (1971). “The Rudiments of Paradise: Various Essays on Various Arts”
“Love lasts a long time but burning desire lasts two to three weeks.”
“Everyone should have the right to marry. To make a commitment to love someone forever is a beautiful thing.”
“The United States will eventually fly the Communist red flagâ€¦The American people will hoist it themselves.”
“I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions, even though I long ago came to the conclusion that I was not a political person and could have no comfortable place in any political group.”

Source : Georgia O'Keeffe, Robert Pincus-Witten, Hirschl & Adler Galleries (1986). “Georgia O'Keeffe: selected paintings and works on paper : April 26 through June 6, 1986”, Hirschl & Adler Galleries, Incorporated
“Nobody had forgotten anything here. In Berlin, you had to wrestle with the past, you had to build on the ruins, inside them. It wasn't like America where we scraped the earth clean, thinking we could start again every time.”
“For the crown of our life as it closes Is darkness, the fruit thereof dust; No thorns go as deep as a rose's, And love is more cruel than lust. Time turns the old days to derision, Our loves into corpses or wives; And marriage and death and division Make barren our lives.”
“I like to run on the beach. It's a different exercise as well when you're in sand, a different kind of training.”

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