Quotes By Letter: W

“Life is all in perception...Do you see what I see?”

-D.W.

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“I'd rather be dreaming than living
Living's just too hard to do
It's chances not choices
Noises not voices
A day's just a thing to get through
Living's just too hard to do

I'd rather be dreaming than talking
There's nothing to hear or to say
With ears covered mouth closed
The world is opposed
Nothing gets in or away
There's nothing to hear or to say

I'd rather be dreaming than thinking
Thoughts are small comfort to me
Dreams might be pretend
But at least dreams end
And I just can't stop thinking you see
Thoughts are small comfort to me

I'd rather be dreaming than sleeping
Just sleeping you're just as well dead
In dreams I can fly
In dreams I don't die
That's why I lie here in this bed
Just sleeping you're just as well dead

I'd rather be dreaming”

-Dreaming, Loudon Wainwright III

Recommended by Marilyn.

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“i'll take a rusty nail
and scratch your initials on my arm.”

-Kentucky Avenue, Tom Waits

Recommended by Blaed.

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“The 'post'-modern hero was a heroic part of the herd, responsible for all of what he is part of, responsible to everyone, his lonely face as placid under pressure as a cow's face. The jut-jawed hero of action ('Hawaii Five-0') becomes the mild-eyed hero of reaction ('Hill Street Blues,' a decade later).

[...]

We await, I predict, the hero of non-action, the catatonic hero, the one beyond calm, divorced from all stimulus, carried here and there across sets by burly extras whose blood sings with retrograde amines.”

-Infinite Jest, David Foster Wallace

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“Let the buyer beware... He bought, on the basis of the wrappings, sex and love. He opened the package, and to his amazement, sex was the smallest part of the contents, love was not quite the right size, and the rest of the contents had not been bargained for and could not be disposed of.”

-The Plot, Irving Wallace

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“Eventually he began to see that light was what he photographed, not objects. The objects merely were the vehicles for reflecting the light. If the light was good, you could always find something to photograph.”

-Bridges of Madison County, Robert James Waller

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“We did not feel sorry for them, my parents, wandering miserably through their grand house like ghosts. All we knew was that they were not like other parents, and we hated them for it. Other mothers spent afternoons making a cake with you, not sleeping or talking about their old boyfriends. Other fathers sat down to dinner, and played Zim Zam on Sunday afternoons instead of drinking in the den. When you are small, if you reach out, and nobody takes your hand, you stop reaching out, and reach inside, instead. That's the way it was.”

-How To Be Lost, Amanda Eyre Ward

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“Flatter me, and I may not believe you. Criticize me, and I may not like you. Ignore me, and I may not forgive you. Encourage me, and I may not forget you.”

-William Arthur Ward

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“You can be watching T.V. and see Coca-Cola, and you know that the President drinks Coke, Liz Taylor drinks Coke, and just think, you can drink Coke too. A Coke is a Coke and no amount of money can get you a better Coke than the one the bum on the corner is drinking. All Cokes are the same and all Cokes are good. Liz Taylor knows it, the President knows it, the bum knows it, and you know it.”

-The Philosophy of Andy Warhol from A to B and Back Again, Andy Warhol

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“I could have slapped his face. I could have slapped that god-damned handsome, eagle-beakered, strong-boned, rubignious-hided high old face, in which the eyes weren't old but hard and bright without any depth to them and were an insult to look into. And the Boss laughed, and I could have slapped his goddamned face. I could have walked right out and left the two of them alone there, alone in that cheese-smelling room until hell froze over, and just kept walking.

But I didn't, and perhaps it was just as well, for maybe you cannot ever really walk away from the things you most want to walk away from.”

-All The King's Men, Robert Penn Warren

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“When we first started out I had a really big issue and a lot of my loved ones had a really big issue with the fact that I was totally in pain up there and there was a time when I tried to hurt myself off stage, but I got over that. Like, you should never want to hurt yourself. You should love yourself. Sometimes you have to kind of die inside in order to rise from your own ashes and believe in yourself and love yourself and become a new person and I think that that is going to be a lot of what the next record is about, not to plug it or anything. Like, it's going to talk about dying and coming back to become what you totally want to become. We are all becoming what we want to become.”

-Gerard Way

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“Down once more to the dungeons
of my black despair
Down we plunge
To the prison of my mind
Down that path into darkness
Deep as hell.”

-Phantom Of The Opera, Andrew Lloyd Webber

Recommended by Sibyl.

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“Hounded out by everyone
Met with hatred everywhere
No kind words from anyone
No compassion anywhere
Why? Why?”

-Phantom Of The Opera, Andrew Lloyd Webber

Recommended by Sibyl.

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“Masquerade...
Paper faces on parade...
Masquerade...
Hide your face,
so the world will
never find you...”

-The Phantom Of The Opera, Andrew Lloyd Webber

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“There is no refuge from confession but suicide, and suicide is confession.”

-Webster’s Permanence, Daniel Webster

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“my figure feels odd compared to yours
and I'm crooked in places where I shouldn't be
those girls in magazines all look so straight
they're not crooked at all
not like you and not like me.”

-Tight, Brenda Weiler

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“I remember [...] the Sex Pistols saying that 'no one is innocent'. Too true. What also has to be said though, is that some are more guilty than others.”

-Trainspotting, Irvine Welsh

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“Relinquishing junk. Stage one, preparation. For this you will need one room which you will not leave. Soothing music. Tomato soup, ten tins of. Mushroom soup, eight tins of, for consumption cold. Ice cream, vanilla, one large tub of. Magnesia, milk of, one bottle. Paracetomal, mouthwash, vitamins. Mineral water, Lucozade, pornography. One mattress. One bucket for urine, one for feces and one for vomitus. One television and one bottle of Valium. Which I've already procured from my mother. Who is, in her own domestic and socially acceptable way also a drug addict. And now I'm ready. All I need is one final hit to soothe the pain while the Valium takes effect.”

-Trainspotting, Irvine Welsh

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“People call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat or a prostitute.”

-Rebecca West

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“Stop trying to fit in, when you were born to stand out.”

-What A Girl Wants [movie]

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“A journal is more than a memory goad. It's therapeutic. The simple act of opening a notebook to put words down stills the crosscurrents of worry, drawing to focus the essential though patterns that best defines us, intersecting those thoughts with the condition of our life at that exact moment. A journal is one of the few anchors the human condition allows us.”

-Outside, Randy Wayne White

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“The expression of the face balks account,
But the expression of a well-made man appears not only in his face,
It is in his limbs and joints also, it is curiously in the joints of his hips and wrists,
It is in his walk, the carriage of his neck, the flex of his waist and knees, dress does not hide him,
The strong sweet quality he has strikes through cotton and broadcloth,
To see him pass conveys as much as the best poem, perhaps more,
You linger to see his back, and the back of his neck and shoulder-side.”

-I Sing The Body Electric, Walt Whitman

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“Books won't stay banned. They won't burn. Ideas won't go to jail. In the long run of history, the censor and the inquisitor have always lost. The only sure weapon against bad ideas is better ideas. The source of better ideas is wisdom. The surest path to wisdom is a liberal education.”

-Essays on Education, Alfred Whitney

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“For all sad words of tongue and pen, the saddest are these, 'It might have been.'”

-John Greenleaf Whittier

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“If I swallow anything evil, put your finger down my throat.”

-Behind Blue Eyes, The Who

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