Nothing is really typical of my efforts... I'm simply casting about for better ways to crystallise and capture certain strong impressions (involving the elements of time, the unknown, cause and effect, fear, scenic and architectural beauty, and other seemingly ill-assorted things) which persist in clamouring for expression.
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Related I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES And what good is a voice when so few will listen? STACEY JAY Gorgons and Hydras, and Chimaeras—dire stories of Celaeno and the Harpies—may reproduce themselv... CHARLES LAMB The challenge is in identifying the cause. The effect identifies itself. KENDALL F. PERSON Bad results are the symptoms not the causes. JOHN LEACH I thought that I was the Warrior and Cersei was the Maid, but all the time she was the Stranger, ... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN It is often interesting, in retrospect, to consider the trifling causes that led to great events. PATRICIA MOYES You know something is wrong when you are known for what you are against, instead of what you are for... JADE HAJJ Not," Swift said firmly, "for all the tea in China." "That expression has never made sense to m... LISA KLEYPAS 'The Ballad of Black Tom' was written, in part, during the latest round of arguments about H... 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MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS I think celebrity culture and sexuality in pop music is really important, but I want there to be an ... MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS I'm not really part of that 'L.A. thing' or that celebrity culture. I'm more like so... MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS This obsession with celebrity culture is really unhealthy. I don't want to live my life like tha... MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS Even when I see a beautiful woman, I think, 'Aw, her life must be amazing.' Everyone does it... MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS Blonde symbolises sexuality and power - it holds very different connotations. The archetypal star ha... MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS Love is really my nemesis. I never really allowed myself to indulge in such basic things because I w... MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS Britney Spears is a big influence. Huge. I think people thought I was joking about that for a long t... MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS Puberty is a phase... fifteen years of rejection is a lifestyle. [Stanford] SEX AND THE CITY I criticized the whole American songwriting industry and the pop side of it and I was bitter about i... MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS I often take things I find in vintage crawls and hand them to a very good seamstress, who then repli... MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS I've read every Madonna biography. I've also looked up every pop star to see how they first ... MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS Oh my God, she's fashion road-kill! SEX AND THE CITY I love you, but I love myself more. SEX AND THE CITY Maybe mistakes are what make our fate... without them what would shape our lives? Maybe if we had ne... SEX AND THE CITY Desperate Housewives. SEX AND THE CITY Sean (while ice-skating with Carrie): I'm guessing it's easier to balance when you're not smoking.Ca... SEX AND THE CITY I want you to look at me, connect with me. This is lovemaking, it's not a porno flick. [Maria] SEX AND THE CITY I once was broken up with by a guy's doorman. 'I'm sorry Ms. Hobbes, Jonathan won't be coming down. ... SEX AND THE CITY I feel like everyone has the right to privacy, even if you're the most famous person in the worl... MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS When you are in the studio, you don't have anybody to feed off of; meanwhile, when you are playi... MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS I am absolutely not a roll-on-stage kind of girl! I would be totally freaked out if I didn't war... MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS It's a slippery slope, Carrie. Without boundaries you never know what might happen. [Miranda] SEX AND THE CITY the sort of person who'd back Proposition 14. SEX AND THE CITY A stud is born! [Stanford] SEX AND THE CITY Maybe we should get married.[Charlotte] Alrighty.[Trey] SEX AND THE CITY My Zen teacher also said: the only way to true happiness is to live in the moment and not worry abou... SEX AND THE CITY Homeless to Harvard: The Liz Murray Story. SEX AND THE CITY No lady likes to dance or dine, accompanied by a porcupine. Burma Shave. 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LOVECRAFT The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all i... H.P. LOVECRAFT I have looked upon all the universe has to hold of horror, and even the skies of spring and flowers ... H.P. LOVECRAFT Contrary to what you may assume, I am not a pessimist but an indifferentist- that is, I don't make t... H.P. LOVECRAFT At night, when the objective world has slunk back into its cavern and left dreamers to their own, th... H.P. LOVECRAFT Yog-Sothoth knows the gate. Yog-Sothoth is the gate. Yog-Sothoth is the key and guardian of the gate... H.P. LOVECRAFT No new horror can be more terrible than the daily torture of the commonplace. H.P. LOVECRAFT Memories and possibilities are even more hideous than realities. H.P. LOVECRAFT I never ask a man what his business is, for it never interests me. What I ask him about are his thou... H.P. LOVECRAFT That is not dead which can eternal lie, And with strange aeons even death may die. H.P. LOVECRAFT They worshipped, so they said, the Great Old Ones who lived ages before there were any men, and who ... H.P. LOVECRAFT There is in certain ancient things a trace Of some dim essence -- More than form or weight... H.P. LOVECRAFT He had read much of things as they are, and talked with too many people. Well-meaning philosophers h... H.P. LOVECRAFT We are all roamers of vast spaces and travelers in many ages. H.P. LOVECRAFT Pleasure to me is wonder—the unexplored, the unexpected, the thing that is hidden and the changele... H.P. LOVECRAFT What do we know,” he had said, “of the world and the universe about us? Our means of receiving i... H.P. LOVECRAFT The cloudless day is richer at its close; A golden glory settles on the lea; Soft, stealin... H.P. LOVECRAFT To say that we actually believed in vampires or werewolves would be a carelessly inclusive statement... H.P. LOVECRAFT I have harnessed the shadows that stride from world to world to sow death and madness. H.P. LOVECRAFT After some time passed in studying - and even imitating - the works of others, I would recommend the... H P (HENRY PEACH) ROBINSON Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye. H. Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking. H. Never deprive someone of hope; it may be all they have. H. Find a job you like and you add five days to every week. H. People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they're not on your road... H. Furious activity is no substitute for understanding. H H WILLIAMS There is nothing in Christianity or Buddhism that quite matches the sympathetic unselfishness of an ... H. H. MUNRO A little inaccuracy sometimes saves tons of explanation. H. H. MUNRO He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death. H. H. MUNRO Furious activity is no substitute for understanding. H. H. WILLIAMS Find yourself a cup; the teapot is behind you. Now tell me about hundreds of things. H. H. MUNRO The cook was a good cook, as cooks go; and as cooks go she went H. H. MUNRO A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton of explanation. H. H. MUNRO All decent people live beyond their incomes; those who aren't respectable live beyond other people's... H. H. MUNRO Women and elephants never forget an injury H. H. MUNRO The young have aspirations that never come to pass, the old have reminiscences of what never happene... H. H. MUNRO I always say beauty is only sin deep. H. H. MUNRO I love Americans, but not when they try to talk French. What a blessing it is that they never try to... H. H. MUNRO A woman who takes her husband about with her everywhere is like a cat that goes on playing with a mo... H. H. MUNRO