I remember you well in the Chelsea Hotel; you were famous, your heart was a legend...You told me again you preferred handsome men, but for me you would make an exception.

Leonard Cohen

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Lenny Bruce (Schneider)

b. October 13, 1925. d. August 3, 1966. Comedian..
Eden Memorial Park, San Fernando, California, USA
Specific Interment Location: Mount Nebo,section 298-C.
GPS coordinates: 34.28151, -118.46684 (hddd.dddd)
Cause of Death: Drug overdose.

"I'm sorry if I'm not very funny tonight, but I'm not a comedian--I'm Lenny Bruce."

"And Moses is still whacked out from the mezuzah he broke open and found nothing inside--one, they found one; little piece of paper, says "MADE IN JAPAN."

Lenny Bruce

April 1, 1964: Lenny Bruce busted at the Cafe a Go Go for using over 100 obscene words at a show wherein adults paid to see him of their free will: Seven months later found guilty of this misdemeanor. Sentenced to 'four months in the workhouse.' ("What we have heah is a failure to comm-un-i-cate") December 23, 2003: Forty years later, Lenny Bruce pardoned by the governor of New York for those charges. Happy holidays Lenny.

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GREY SEAL

Why's it never light on my lawn
Why does it rain and never say good-day to the new-born
On the big screen they showed us the sun
But not as bright in life as the real one
It's never quite the same as the real one
And tell me grey seal
How does it feel
To be so wise
To see through eyes
That only see what's real
Tell me grey seal
I never learned why meteors were formed
I only farmed in schools that were so worn and torn
If anyone can cry then so can I
I read books and draw life from the eye
All my life is drawings from the eye
Your mission bells were wrought by ancient men
The roots were formed by twisted roots
Your roots were twisted then
I was re-born before all life could die
The Phoenix bird will leave this world to fly
If the Phoenix bird can fly then so can I
--lyrics, Bernie Taupin (Elton John)

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The basis of optimism is sheer terror.

There is luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves, we feel no one else has a right to blame us.

Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
-Oscar Wilde

The story goes that Zeno was flogging a slave for stealing. "I was fated to steal", said the slave. "And to be flogged", was Zeno's reply.
--Diogenes Laertius.

If a good man had foreknowledge of what would happen, he would cooperate in his own sickness and death and mutilation, since he knows that these things are assigned to him according to the universal arrangement, and that the whole is superior to the part.
-Marcus Aurelius

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It's just a box of rain,
I don't know who put it there;
Believe it if you need it
or leave it if you dare.
But it's just a box of rain,
or a ribbon for your hair--
Such a long long time to be gone,
and a short time to be there.....

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William Tecumseh Sherman Gallery, part 1

Hamlet

Act 2, Scene 2

I have of late -- but wherefore I know not -- lost all my mirth, foregone all custom of exercises, and indeed it goes so heavily with my disposition, that the goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory; this most excellent canopy, the air, look you, this brave o'erhanging firmament, this majestical roof fretted with golden fire, why, it appeareth nothing to me but a foul and pestilent congregation of vapors. What [a] piece of work is a man, how noble in reason, how infinite in faculties, in form and moving, how express and admirable in action, how like an angel in apprehension, how like a god! the beauty of the world; the paragon of animals; and yet to me what is this quintessence of dust? Man delights me not, no, nor women neither, nor women neither.

The above scene is from one of my favorite films (Withnail and I), and the little player will recite the HAMLET monologue that Withnail delivers (it takes a second to load, but it's great). Can you believe it, I found the original poster in great condition for the film on for 26$!!! as opposed to the 150$ wanted by dealers...
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Here's

Maximus

my Italian Greyhound

I see you stand like greyhounds in the slips, Straining upon the start. The game's afoot.
Follow your spirit; and, upon this charge
Cry 'God for Harry! England and Saint George!' HENRY V 3.1.31)

LOVE WILL TEAR US APART - I.Curtis (1957 - 1980)

When the routine bites hard
and ambitions are low
And the resentment rides high
but emotions won't grow
And we're changing our ways,
taking different roads
Then love, love will tear us apart again
Why is the bedroom so cold
Turned away on your side?
Is my timing that flawed,
our respect run so dry?
Yet there's still this appeal
That we've kept through our lives
Love, love will tear us apart again
Do you cry out in your sleep
All my failings expose?
Get a taste in my mouth
As desperation takes hold
Is it something so good
Just can't function no more?

When love, love will tear us apart again

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