Quotes By Letter: M

“The best explanation is the one that needs no analogy.”

-Anthony Sekohla Mabuza

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“There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things.”

-The Prince, Niccolo Machiavelli

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“The church says the earth is flat, but I know that it is round, for I have seen the shadow on the moon, and I have more faith in a shadow than in the church.”

-Ferdinand Magellan

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“i've been trying to give myself reasons to live
and i really can't think of one thing

i drive around, i walk around in circles
'cause i've got no sense of direction
and i guess i've got no sense at all.”

-All the Umbrellas in London, Magnetic Fields

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“Abre tus alas, deja tus suenos volar.

(open your wings, let your dreams fly)”

-Angel de Amor, Mana

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“I eat too much to die
and not enough to stay alive.
I'm sitting in the middle
Waiting.”

-4st. 7lbs., Manic Street Preachers

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“Kate and Kristin and kit kat.
All things I like looking at.
Too weak to fuss, too weak to die.
Choice is skeletal in everybody's life.

I choose, my choice, I starve to frenzy.

Hunger soon passes and sickness soon tires.
Legs bend, stockinged I am twiggy.
And I don't mind the horror that surrounds me.

Self- worth scatters, self esteem's a bore.
I long since moved to a higher plateau.
This discipline's so rare so please applaud.
Just look at the fat scum who pamper me.

Yeh 4st 7, an epilogue of youth.
Such beautiful dignity in self-abuse.
I've finally come to understand life.
Through staring blankly at my navel.”

-4st. 7lbs., Manic Street Preachers

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“Self-disgust is self-obsession honey and I do as I please.”

-Faster, Manic Street Preachers

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“I am just a fashion accessory
People send postcards
And they all hope I'm feeling well
I retreat into self-pity, it's so easy
Where they patronise my misery.”

-La Tristesse Durera, Manic Street Preachers

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“And all the drugs in the world
Can't save us from ourselves.”

-There by the Grace of God, Manic Street Preachers

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“You're tender and you're tired
You can't be bothered to decide
Whether you live or die
Or just forget about your life
Drift away and die
Never say goodbye.”

-You're Tender and You're Tired, Manic Street Preachers

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“I keep going round and round on the same old circuit
A wire travels underground to a vacant lot
Where something I can't see interrupts the current
And shrinks the picture down to a tiny dot
And from behind the screen it can look so perfect
But it's not.”

-It's Not, Aimee Mann

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“People are tricky, you can't afford to show
Anything risky, anything they don't know
The moment you try - kiss it goodbye.”

-It's Not, Aimee Mann

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“So here I'm sitting in my car at the same old stop light
I keep waiting for a change but I don't know what
So red turns into green turning into yellow
But I'm just frozen here in the same old spot
And all I have to do is to press the pedal, but I'm not.”

-It's Not, Aimee Mann

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“But I can't confront the doubts I have
I can't admit that maybe the past was bad
And so, for the sake of momentum,
I'm condemning the future to death
So it can match the past.”

-Momentum, Aimee Mann

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“All their 'helpful' comments imply that if I'd only do_______, my problems would be solved. Like it's all within my grasp, able to be managed and mastered, if only I would try harder, longer, better. As I nod my head in polite and pathetic appreciation for their input, I scream inside, 'Shut up. Shut up. Unless you've been lost in this particular section of hell yourself, don't you dare try to give me directions.'”

-Undercurrents, Martha Manning

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“Depression is such a cruel punishment. There are no fevers, no rashes, no blood tests to send people scurrying in concern. Just the slow erosion of the self, as insidious as any cancer. And, like cancer, it is essentially a solitary experience. A room in hell with only your name on the door.”

-Undercurrents, Martha Manning

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“When I was nine, I climbed up to the high diving board at Jones Beach for the first time. My initial enthusiasm was betrayed by a mounting fear the farther I progressed up the ladder. There were at least ten children behind me occupying their own rungs, impatiently waiting for their chance at flight. Turning back was not an option, so I flung myself off the board. The fall was so fierce, so sharp, that I was buried in the water. I kept sinking lower and lower, the air busting in my chest and the terror overtaking me. I was frightened that I would never come up, that there was no bottom to this pool. I 'sank like a hopeless swimmer'. But finally, finally, my big toe skimmed the jagged concrete floor of the pool. I flexed my foot and pushed off against the bottom, propelling myself upward, back to air and sun and life.”

-Undercurrents, Martha Manning

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“On her way home she usually bought a slice of honey-cake at the baker's. It was her Sunday treat. Sometimes there was an almond in her slice, sometimes not. It made a great difference. If there was an almond it was like carrying home a tiny present--a surprise--something that might very well not have been there. She hurried on the almond Sundays and struck the match for the kettle in quite a dashing way.

But today she passed the baker's by, climbed the stairs, went into the little dark room--her room like a cupboard--and sat down on the red eiderdown. She sat there for a long time. The box that the fur came out of was on the bed. She unclasped the necklet quickly; quickly, without looking, laid it inside. But when she put the lid on she thought she heard something crying.”

-Miss Brill, Katherine Mansfield

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“Believe me, if I started killing people... there'd be none of you left.”

-Charles Manson

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“Look down at me and you'll see a fool. Look up at me and you'll see your god. Look straight at me and you'll see yourself.”

-Charles Manson

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“Sure, I'm crazy. But that used to mean something. Now, everybody's crazy.”

-Charles Manson

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“To care about someone is to give them the power to hurt you.”

-Matt Margolis

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“I would have told her then
she was the only thing
that I could love in this dying world
but the simple word 'love' itself
already died and went away.”

-Coma Black, Marilyn Manson

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“A pill to make you numb
A pill to make you dumb
A pill to make you anybody else
But all the drugs in this world
Won't save her from herself.”

-Coma White, Marilyn Manson

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