Time Has Its Revenges

“Time has its revenges, but revenge seems so often sour. 

Wouldn’t we all do better not trying to understand,

 accepting the fact that no human being will ever understand another,

 not a wife with a husband, nor a parent a child?

 Perhaps that’s why men have invented God –

 a being capable of understanding. ”

~ Graham Greene, The Quiet American

Women Writers

“Women writers make for rewarding (and efficient) lovers. 

They are clever liars to fathers and husbands; 

yet they never hold their tongues too long, 

nor keep ardent typing fingers still.”

~ Roman Payne, Rooftop Soliloquy

It Seems To Me

“It seems to me that if you place music 

(and books, probably, and films, and plays, 

and anything that makes you feel) 

at the center of your being, 

then you can’t afford to sort out your love life, 

start to think of it as the finished product. 

You’ve got to pick at it, 

keep it alive and in turmoil, 

you’ve got to pick at it and unravel it 

until it all comes apart

 and you’re compelled to start all over again.

 Maybe we all live life at too high a pitch, 

those of us who absorb emotional things all day,

 and as a consequence we can never feel merely content:

 we have to be unhappy, or ecstatically,

 head-over-heels happy, 

and those states are difficult to achieve 

within a stable, solid relationship.”

~ Nick Hornby

If I Lived A Million Lives

“If I lived a million lives, 

I would've felt a million feelings 

and I still would've fallen a million times for you.”

~ Robert M. Drake