Hubert Selby Jr. quote: "I suspect there will never be a requiem for a dream, simply because it will destroy us before we have the opportunity to mourn it's passing."

But you cant shut everyone out. I mean you have to have someone to love. . .someone to hold on to. ....
HUBERT SELBY JR.

I have rituals for cleaning out resentments, disappointments, heartbreak, depression and for work. O...
HUBERT SELBY, JR.

The voice so filled with nostalgia that you could almost see the memories floating through the blue ...
HUBERT SELBY JR.

There's a sorrow and pain in everyone's life, but every now and then there's a ray of light that mel...
HUBERT SELBY JR.

I guess it could be said that the inspiration for 'Requiem for a Dream' is watching the Amer...
HUBERT SELBY, JR.

There was a problem and that was that. Why didnt make a fiddlers fuck.
HUBERT SELBY JR.

Yes, he could walk forever. He could so easily continue to walk and all thoughts of death would fall...
HUBERT SELBY JR.

Life was not longer something to endure, but to live.
HUBERT SELBY JR.

All the energy of their frustration and fear going into their laughter.
HUBERT SELBY JR.

There was a sky somewhere above the tops of the buildings, with stars and a moon and all the things ...
HUBERT SELBY JR.

For weeks Tyrone thought he was going to die any minute, and there were also times when he was afrai...
HUBERT SELBY JR.

The summer sun continued to rise in the sky and propel shocks of heat down on the city and the heavy...
HUBERT SELBY JR.

Right right, because up to that point I had not been a viewer, and I didn't know alot about the ...
DAVID SELBY

One of the reasons I think Dark Shadows still runs is that it's dependent on nothing else other ...
DAVID SELBY

The movie wasn't really derived from Dark Shadows - they developed a whole new script for that p...
DAVID SELBY

That's the reason support for the National Endowment of the Arts is so important. It enables tho...
DAVID SELBY

We have to provide good teachers, good environment, community involvement with schools.
DAVID SELBY

Durham police is the lead agency because the body was found in Durham.
DAVID SELBY

We went back over our program space to see where we could cut, ... It was pretty bone dry the way it...
DAVID SELBY

They can run about 38 miles an hour for approximately 50 feet,
DAVID SELBY

Several people told us they wanted the (alligator) caught because they were afraid to let their dogs...
DAVID SELBY

We were out taping fliers to doors and trying to let people know what was going on,
DAVID SELBY

I did a lot of personal appearances because I was under contract to ABC.
DAVID SELBY

I think family is very important in West Virginia and has long been so because the mountains made tr...
DAVID SELBY

We are pretty booked December and May. We have something going on almost every night at both theater...
DENISE SELBY

We even have a couple of elementary schools coming to do their little plays.
DENISE SELBY

Last Saturday was our first outside rental.
DENISE SELBY

We got some good looks, but they just didn't fall for us. It seemed like we kind of had them on the ...
DAN SELBY

Everyone else has to step up. It hurts, but we can win without him.
DAN SELBY

They got a little bit of a lead on us in overtime and held the ball and forced us to foul.
DAN SELBY

He basically broke our back.
DAN SELBY

When you succeed at creating your own world, whether it's in any realm - like Tolkien was able t...
DAVID SELBY

It's good for the students to see that there are people out there in need. We've established a good ...
HENRY SELBY

The mission of the school is woven through everything we do here. We don't separate academics and re...
HENRY SELBY

Many of the students are non-Christians. We don't require (students to be Christian); there's no pro...
HENRY SELBY

I never found it frustrating not speaking.
DAVID SELBY

I don't think they knew exactly where they were going with the character, but they lay those sto...
DAVID SELBY

When I was younger I decided I'd hop on the train to New York.
DAVID SELBY

All I could think of was we were about to start filming for the last final weeks of the TV show and ...
DAVID SELBY

I was delighted to have lines when they came - learning lines for film isn't a problem, but tele...
DAVID SELBY

I may have been lucky with some sort of intuition, but I believe in training a great deal.
DAVID SELBY

The thing of it is though that's the only way people know you, they see you in that roll and the...
DAVID SELBY

And I haven't met too many actors along the way that haven't told me how much the show has m...
DAVID SELBY

The movie, if I recall, didn't have to do with the television show because there were concerns f...
DAVID SELBY

We would change out of costume, then we would read the next days script.
DAVID SELBY

Oh I am trying to remember, we would read the script after we did the show.
DAVID SELBY

When I entered college, I wasn't sure what I was going to do. My advisor happened to be from the...
DAVID SELBY

But I had no idea that they were going to pull the plug so quickly.
DAVID SELBY

The only thing I wish I had kept were all the peace beads, because in the 1960s people made these an...
DAVID SELBY

And it was so special, and to tell you the truth that's how I feel about the whole thing, I mean...
DAVID SELBY

[South Main] is built on the principles of new urbanism, which are nothing new. It's essentially bui...
JED SELBY

The reason we chose to do a project in Buena Vista is that it really represents the last [relatively...
JED SELBY

Developers are the second lowest on the food chain in the United States. I think the only [professio...
JED SELBY

I'm pretty good with time management. I try to get as much homework done in class as possible. I get...
JEFF SELBY

I like engineering because I like to solve problems. You have to think of your own ways to fix thing...
JEFF SELBY

But my favorite sport is probably water polo. It's a team sport where you get to work with other peo...
JEFF SELBY

Never answer a question from a farmer.
HUBERT HUMPHREY

A politician never forgets the precarious nature of elective life. We have never established a pract...
HUBERT HUMPHREY

The essence of statesmanship is not a rigid adherence to the past, but a prudent and probing concern...
HUBERT HUMPHREY

The heroes of the world community are not those who withdraw when difficulties ensue, not those who ...
HUBERT HUMPHREY

American public opinion is like an ocean -- it cannot be stirred by a teaspoon.
HUBERT HUMPHREY

The impersonal hand of government can never replace the helping hand of a neighbor.
HUBERT HUMPHREY

Slumism is the pent-up anger of people living on the outside of affluence. Slumism is decay of struc...
HUBERT HUMPHREY

The pursuit of peace resembles the building of a great cathedral. It is the work of a generation. In...
HUBERT HUMPHREY

The great challenge which faces us is to assure that, in our society of big-ness, we do not strangle...
HUBERT HUMPHREY

In real life, unlike in Shakespeare, the sweetness of the rose depends upon the name it bears. Thing...
HUBERT HUMPHREY

The right to be heard does not autmatically include the right to be taken seriously.
HUBERT HUMPHREY

Leadership in today's world requires far more than a large stock of gunboats and a hard fist at the ...
HUBERT HUMPHREY

We should have learnt by now that laws and court decisions can only point the way. They can establis...
HUBERT HUMPHREY

Freedom is hammered out on the anvil of discussion, dissent, and debate.
HUBERT HUMPHREY

When people generally are aware of a problem, it can be said to have entered the public consciousnes...
HUBERT HUMPHREY

Winning breeds confidence and confidence breeds winning.
HUBERT GREEN

We are in danger of making our cities places where business goes on but where life, in its real sens...
HUBERT HUMPHREY

Each child is an adventure into a better life --an opportunity to change the old pattern and make it...
HUBERT HUMPHREY

I learned more about the economy from one South Dakota dust storm that I did in all my years of coll...
HUBERT HUMPHREY

It is not enough to merely defend democracy. To defend it may be to lose it; to extend it is to stre...
HUBERT HUMPHREY

There are incalculable resources in the human spirit, once it has been set free.
HUBERT HUMPHREY

Freedom is the most contagious virus known to man.
HUBERT HUMPHREY

If there is dissatisfaction with the status quo, good. If there is ferment, so much the better. If t...
HUBERT HUMPHREY

There are those who say to you -- we are rushing this issue of civil rights. I say we are 172 years ...
HUBERT HUMPHREY

Behind every successful man is a proud wife and a surprised mother-in-law.
HUBERT HUMPHREY

Propaganda, to be effective, must be believed. To be believed, it must be credible. To be credible, ...
HUBERT HUMPHREY

Profit and morality are a hard combination to beat.
HUBERT HUMPHREY

The President is the people's lobbyist.
HUBERT HUMPHREY

Unfortunately, our affluent society has also been an effluent society.
HUBERT HUMPHREY

There is in every American, I think, something of the old Daniel Boone -- who, when he could see the...
HUBERT HUMPHREY

This, then, is the test we must set for ourselves; not to march alone but to march in such a way tha...
HUBERT HUMPHREY

People in places many of us never heard of, whose names we can't pronounce or even spell, are speaki...
HUBERT HUMPHREY

Fortunately, the time has long passed when people liked to regard the United States as some kind of ...
HUBERT HUMPHREY

The difference between heresy and prophecy is often one of sequence. Heresy often turns out to have ...
HUBERT HUMPHREY

Liberalism, above all, means emancipation -- emancipation from one's fears, his inadequacies, from p...
HUBERT HUMPHREY

Oh, my friend, it's not what they take away from you that counts -- it's what you do with what you h...
HUBERT HUMPHREY

History teaches us that the great revolutions aren't started by people who are utterly down and out,...
HUBERT HUMPHREY

To be realistic today is to be visionary. To be realistic is to be starry-eyed.
HUBERT HUMPHREY

I have seen in the Halls of Congress more idealism, more humanness, more compassion, more profiles o...
HUBERT HUMPHREY

I think the worst thing this nation could do for humanity would be to leave any uncertainty as to ou...
HUBERT HUMPHREY

...the moral test of government is how that government treats those who are in the dawn of life, the...
HUBERT HUMPHREY

Such a little man could not have made so big a depression.
HUBERT HOOVER

Life's unfairness is not irrevocable; we can help balance the scales for others, if not always for o...
HUBERT HUMPHREY

National isolation breeds national neurosis.
HUBERT HUMPHREY

Mockery is the weapon of those who have no other.
HUBERT PIERLOT

The impersonal hand of government can never replace the helping hand of a neighbor.
HUBERT HUMHREY

With the Maastricht Treaty, the problem is that we need to decrease public resources in France, so w...
HUBERT ASTIER

Some of the grounds will seem bare. It will change the park.
HUBERT ASTIER

We have to plant new ones for the next centuries.
HUBERT ASTIER

Some of the trees were old and sick. They weren't made to resist winds like that.
HUBERT ASTIER

Everything that exists is information, and everything that is informative also exists. The infospher...
HUBERT BURDA

For the first time in the history of mankind, one generation literally has the power to destroy the ...
HUBERT HUMPHREY

The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.
HUBERT HUMPHREY

Almost no one wants to admit the genius of Jeff Bezos and Amazon. Apparently, many have failed to se...
HUBERT BURDA

The guy who chokes least wins the most.
HUBERT GREEN

We're going to expose what the tobacco companies knew and when they knew it. The American public is ...
HUBERT HUMPHREY

This is a little bit like busting a street drug dealer to get at the Colombian drug cartel,
HUBERT HUMPHREY

If the tobacco officials had really changed, ... they would not have waited until Minnesota secured ...
HUBERT HUMPHREY

We are the only living creatures who can create a context, and as far as we know, everything else ca...
HUBERT BURDA

Man is the most insane species. He worships an invisible God and destroys a visible Nature. Unaware ...
HUBERT REEVES

The tragic events of September 11 are a cruel reminder of the necessity and the urgency of a securit...
HUBERT VEDRINE

A communication highway without content is inconceivable.
HUBERT BURDA

Charles Darwin noticed the result. He observed that in some island chains, there would be islands at...
HUBERT STAUDIGEL

When Arianna Huffington founded 'The Huffington Post' in 2005, a whole new era of journalism...
HUBERT BURDA

The high volume of passenger and luggage traffic means we must have flexibility in every direction i...
HUBERT FONTANEL

I felt great. I told them that this was our game to win. If we can survive a half like that, we shou...
RICH HUBERT

He accepted new ideas as readily as new trends. Knowing those worth it would last and the lessers wi...
HUBERT MARTIN

I don't know anymore, whether it's a curse or a blessing to see the beauty in the ugly. Growing up s...
HUBERT MARTIN

The scribbles in my notebook are a reflection of you. Every line holds your name. Every paragraph a ...
HUBERT MARTIN

I think I feel it
The nimble, fleeting emotion
That novels and authors desperately
HUBERT MARTIN

She was small. Her shadow moved in the dance of chaos before her as the inferno blazed behind her an...
HUBERT MARTIN

She was beauty and intelligence stitched together with no seams
She lived in a world with no d...
HUBERT MARTIN

Anyone who claims good or evil isn't one or either, they're just a liar... the worst kind of liar......
HUBERT MARTIN

Everyone is their own, though they are so alone. They all sit on their imagined thrones, made only o...
HUBERT MARTIN

In time, he began to see the details that held us like invisible stitches together. The scars we hel...
HUBERT MARTIN

I was the wings that kept her aloft, while the churning sea of reality nipped at her feet. I kept he...
HUBERT MARTIN

She was exactly right and wrong in the perfect sort of way. This kiss would be the first of many, sh...
HUBERT MARTIN

An intricate string made up of infinite knots and curls. Taking a step back, it really did seem so f...
HUBERT MARTIN

It only took a corny joke, but the smile I saw shone brighter than a glare, more profound than a sta...
HUBERT MARTIN

And they danced with laughter and tears. They swung each other round and round, the first and last t...
HUBERT MARTIN

Just being around her made me feel better. She had an amber shade aura to her that filled any cracks...
HUBERT MARTIN

Inside, my soul is curled tightly bearing the burden of massive sins from another life. And my eyes ...
HUBERT MARTIN

Every decision, every single one, comes with a price to pay. It means you chose one thing over anoth...
HUBERT MARTIN

The brittle seeds remained inside my soul, my tears the water that begged them to grow. And though I...
HUBERT MARTIN

It was a burden on all her muscles. A hollow deeper than her bones. She braced herself though, she k...
HUBERT MARTIN

I held my breath tightly against the shivers coursing through my body. Darkness ate away the edges o...
HUBERT MARTIN

His eyes are covered by impermeable marble, a solidity that can never be breached. You think there i...
HUBERT MARTIN

We are the living whole of the fragments from the things we've experienced and people we've encounte...
HUBERT MARTIN

My scars show you I've been strong enough to endure the trauma of the world. My heart has no scars, ...
HUBERT MARTIN

I wear my past around my shoulders as a fine, but worn, cloak. Don't be fooled by my cloak's appeara...
HUBERT MARTIN

And in my novels I live many lives. Substitutes of spontaneity to replace a dreary reality. How I li...
HUBERT MARTIN

The storm only grew stronger. Walls of facets became flooded with cracks, the tumultuous gale escape...
HUBERT MARTIN

It was a slow fall, through warm experiences and good laughs. It didn't even feel like love until I ...
HUBERT MARTIN

They surrounded me, bare me. Their fingers like tentacles and their desires like knives. Their finge...
HUBERT MARTIN

On these days, I've never felt so hollow. Recollecting the many pieces of me that were lost in past ...
HUBERT MARTIN

Adventures kept hidden, words kept silent. You became my greatest secret. And when you left, no one ...
HUBERT MARTIN

I wanted to know every story behind the scars on her curves. I wanted to decipher the whispers hidde...
HUBERT MARTIN

I was burdened with an ever-growing heart on the verge of decay. To save myself, I had to give many ...
HUBERT MARTIN

I always thought time was the most valuable currency, but I realized the people we spent our time on...
HUBERT MARTIN

All my past heartache and pain suddenly made sense. That was who I would not be to the person who de...
HUBERT MARTIN

It was the end for something. It was the beginning for another. But in reality it just fell in the m...
HUBERT MARTIN

You are whole today, looking back at fragments of the past. Such a hollow foundation for such a powe...
HUBERT MARTIN

I wanted nothing more than her attention. Her thoughts filled with me. Her eyes lost in my image. I ...
HUBERT MARTIN

My body held on though I held snapped threads in my hands and patches of my flesh were missing entir...
HUBERT MARTIN

She had the blood of the sun running through her veins and the dust of stars at her fingertips. Her ...
HUBERT MARTIN

And though they fell as ashes, their shadows drifted as leaves.
HUBERT MARTIN

I realized the world around me was fragmented and broken... I had to be gentle enough not to scrape ...
HUBERT MARTIN

He spoke in polished honesty free of liar's filth. He said the hardest words with an unshakable voic...
HUBERT MARTIN

Her words were slickly lacquered, dripping with venom that singed the air as they fell. She traced h...
HUBERT MARTIN

She was the half-whispers born from half-thoughts, the half-breaths of dying half-hearts.
HUBERT MARTIN

When it came to her, I became an indomitable warrior. My muscles became her shield and my lungs aide...
HUBERT MARTIN

Hoping fast that my arrow's flight is steady and true,
I need this, I need my arrow to find yo...
HUBERT MARTIN

My heart may be bruised and scarred, bleeding slow drip-drip with every thump and every other thump-...
HUBERT MARTIN

Whether it was in the maze of my fantastical mind or the allure of her gossamer eyes, they took me t...
HUBERT MARTIN

She is beyond any mortal structure of words, yet she inspires the effort to try anyway.
HUBERT MARTIN

She was the sort of girl who flooded my five senses. Her voice was melody to my ears, her taste gave...
HUBERT MARTIN

That's what really broke me, she was better than any fantasy I could hope to imagine. I've spent my ...
HUBERT MARTIN

I always deemed myself a one chance person, if you hurt me or betray me, then I'm done with you. As ...
HUBERT MARTIN

She speaks in heartbeats and the rises of her chest, words forever seared in thoughts that will neve...
HUBERT MARTIN

He sang softly, less with words and more with thought. She cradled his head, stitching together his ...
HUBERT MARTIN

These places I traveled through, they were a lot like the people I knew. Some abodes I muddled about...
HUBERT MARTIN

In a way, she became the sand to my hourglass... she made watching that trickling sand a little more...
HUBERT MARTIN

She was carmine shadows reflecting from my crimson words. Every pulse sent a velvet ripple through t...
HUBERT MARTIN

As I watched the sky morph shades of amber and amethyst, of fiery orange and smoldering pink, I alwa...
HUBERT MARTIN

That last bit of hope always lingered as a stubborn thread. Every time I would try to cut it I would...
HUBERT MARTIN

I spill my emotions and hopes on pieces of paper and pixels of screens, combining and creating, merg...
HUBERT MARTIN

Our bodies are made of supernova dust, the epitome of ultimate destruction and shatter. And though w...
HUBERT MARTIN

She was poetry written in pen, scribbled and scrawled again and again.
HUBERT MARTIN

She was poetry written in pen, scribbled and scrawled again and again. Ink splattered across the pag...
HUBERT MARTIN

And once the ripples still and the water returns to its unwavering calm, even the pebble that broke ...
HUBERT MARTIN

The flicker, the flutter, even thoughts can stutter.
HUBERT MARTIN

Though I exist in the realms of day and night, I'm only truly alive in the moments between.
HUBERT MARTIN

I love her, but every hug leaves bullet holes in my chest. Every kiss is another scar upon my flesh....
HUBERT MARTIN

They flew to avoid the horrors of land and sea, Daedalus and Icarus were for few moments free. Thoug...
HUBERT MARTIN

With ravenous passion and reckless ambition he forged his thoughts into words, obsessed with the not...
HUBERT MARTIN

He was a musician of the best nature, with guitar string fingertips and soft flute lips that could t...
HUBERT MARTIN

He gave up. No hint of ember behind his eyes nor life in his breath. He snipped the last, overstretc...
HUBERT MARTIN

Spare parts lay scattered, every turn wrought with twisted dread, all over the ground, the rooftops,...
HUBERT MARTIN

Woven words are little conviction when I present myself as a man of fiction.
And you a woman o...
HUBERT MARTIN

An outline, my body, no mass or feeling,
A dark reflection spread from floor to ceiling,
HUBERT MARTIN

Woven words are little conviction when I present myself as a man of fiction.
HUBERT MARTIN

...4-5-6: when time escapes the day in its most beautiful way. She starves for that beauty, she long...
HUBERT MARTIN

It was her eyes. Soft, meadow-shade eyes with frostbitten edges. Every glance casually held gossamer...
HUBERT MARTIN

Stop the bleeding! Gauze the wound!" And his voice became much softer, "Those are the words... I've ...
HUBERT MARTIN

I suspect there will never be a requiem for a dream, simply because it will destroy us before we have the opportunity to mourn it's passing.

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I suspect there will never be a requiem for a dream, simply because it will destroy us before we have the opportunity to mourn it's passing.

Hubert Selby Jr.

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