the glass hungered for the wine

 

“SATIETY, n. The feeling that one has for the plate

after he has eaten its contents, madam.”

 

~ Ambrose Bierce ~

 

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grow wings

 

“Feet, what do I need you for when I have wings to fly?”

 

~ Frida Kahlo ~

 

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empty trains

 

“It was a train full of strangers, and they were all the same.”

 

~ Cherie Priest ~

 

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long shadows

 

“Some shadows are so long, they arrive before the light.”

 

~ Terry Pratchett ~

 

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the ghosts of my life

 

“Maybe before you die, it’s your ghosts you see.”

 

~ Lauren Oliver ~

 

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never looked back

 

“I never waste time looking back.”

 

~ Eleanor Roosevelt ~

 

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the moon hung fat and high

 

“Au clair de la lune prête moi ta plume pour écrire un mot…”

“In the moonlight lend me your pen to write a word…”

 

~ French Folk Song “Au Clair de la Lune” ~

 

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the sanctuary of their blindness

 

“The liar’s punishment is not in the least that he is not believed,

but that he cannot believe anyone else.”

 

~ George Bernard Shaw ~

 

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the final act

 

“I knew if I waited around long enough

something like this would happen.”

 

~ George Bernard Shaw ~

(epitaph)

 

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build a nest

 

“Look at this tangle of thorns.”

 

~ Vladimir Nabokov ~

 

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until the curtians close

 

“Some men share brotherly love – that of Cain and Abel.”

 

~ Andrzej Majewski ~

 

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no future for fools

 

“The past is always tense, the future perfect.”

 

~ Zadie Smith ~

 

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prison

 

“I said, warden, warden, warden, won’t ya break your lock and key,

yeah, come along here, mister, c’mon and let the poor boy be…”

 

~ Jim Morrison ~

 

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with a fork

 

“The world was my oyster but I used the wrong fork.”

 

~ Oscar Wilde ~

 

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penance

 

“The man hath penance done, and penance more will do.”

 

~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge ~

 

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silent movies

 

“The world is pressed against your fingers,

and you’re still looking for something to hold.”

 

~ Nitya Prakash ~

 

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life’s blood

 

“…that poetic anarchy which has been the fundamental viewpoint

of creative people since the world began.”

 

~ Alison Prince ~

 

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cracks and crevices

 

“We are an episode between two oblivions.”

 

~ Thomas Nagel ~

 

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women

 

“It may be a man’s world, but men are easily controlled by women.”

 

~ Ashly Lorenzana ~

 

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wordless

 

“I have no words for my reality.”

 

~ Max Frisch ~

 

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