Passing passages

Do whatever you have to do. Beg, plead, cry. Get down on bended knee. ’cause I’m telling you, no amount of top-shelf pussy can compete with the love of a good woman. ~ Hank Moody, Californication (TV show)

I beseech you, in the bowels of Christ, think it possible that you may be mistaken. ~ Oliver Cromwell (to the Church of Scotland, 1650) PS: prior probabilities.

The discipline of writing something down is the first step to making it happen. In conversation you can get away with all kinds of vagueness, often without realizing it. But there's something about putting your thoughts on paper that forces you to get down to the specifics. That way it's harder to deceive yourself or anybody else. ~ Lee Iococca

Maybe love won't let you down. All of your failures are training grounds and just as your back's turned you'll be surprised...as your solitude subsides. W. Shakespeare  I hold this to be the higher task for a bond between two people: that each protect the solitude of the other.  R.M. Rilke  Talent develops in solitude, character develops in the stream of life. W. Goethe

I told myself: "There must be people whose job it is to use the right words, put things in a way... who when their heart beats, can get other people's hearts to beat." "That day I decided to become a poet." ~ Le tigre et la neige (Film)

If she dies, they can close this whole show of a world... they can cart it off, unscrew the stars, roll up the sky and put it on a truck, they can turn off this sunlight I love so much. Do you know why I love it so much? Because I love her when the sun shines on her. They can take everything away, these carpets, columns, houses, sand, wind, frogs, ripe watermelons, hail, seven in the evening, May, June, July, basil, bees, the sea, courgettes... ~ Le tigre et la neige (Film)