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And quiet is the thought of you The file on you complete Except what we forgot to do A thousand kisses deep

‘I was born when she kissed me. I died when she left . I lived a few weeks while she loved me.’

A Great Run and a Fascinating Ending.  Mission accomplished. 

. . . The Lost and sometimes Found, for a few precious moments.

You have to die a few times before starting to live

The subtle gravity of levitation

Not much chance, completely cut loose from purpose, he was a young man riding a bus through North Carolina on the way to somewhere and it be...

It wasn't just about sex. It was about redemption. The best sex usually is. You don't just want to empty your glands; you want to fi...

I don't really care about happy endings. Endings are the saddest part, So just give me a happy middle, And a very happy start.

We pine for the things that might have been,  the words that were never said,  and the love that remains elusive.

  ' When I know your soul, I will paint your eyes' ― Amedeo Modigliani

People love simple and preposterous lies.  They much prefer them to the truth.  Truth is elusive. Difficult to discover. Infinitely nuanced....

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  What doesn't kill you makes you something

 A few things about ditching

Pick your poison privately

  “Life can’t be all bad when for ten dollars you can buy all the Beethoven sonatas and listen to them for ten years."                 ...

P lus a few ever changing constants

 

It' s very simple to be yourself, but quite difficult to be simple.                                

  You never realize the holes they left until you fall into them.

If it’s not broken, don’t fix it.  Even if it is broken, leave it alone, you’ll probably make it worse.

Perhaps not love itself but the knowledge that love is there.  Like new batteries in the flashlight in the emergency kit in the hall closet

You still hold a special place in my heart.  I keep this special place just for you, like a ‘Reserved’ sign on a quiet corner table in a res...

  “The illusion of freedom will continue as long as it’s profitable to continue the illusion. At the point where the illusion becomes too ex...

  I was advised that to make her fall in love, I had to make her laugh.    But every time she laughs, I’m the one who falls in love.  

The days came along one after another,  and then four months were gone,  and everything was gone,  and I was gone.

 Nothing is better than something

Either we forget right away or we never forget.

A bullet must have passed through your heart when you were very young, causing you to bleed out slowly, over things and lovers and every whi...

Few people can tell the difference between denial and what used to be known as hope.

Most wanted serial killer of the last century.

The amazing thing is that even after we've fallen, we'd still get in line to do it again.

The way to love someone is to lightly run your finger over that person’s soul until you find a crack, and then gently pour your love into th...

Fate is like a strange, unpopular restaurant filled with odd little waiters who bring you things you never asked for and don’t always like, ...

Like is what happens between Love and Hate.  Like is for strangers

  Old things are better than new things, because they've got stories in them

“I've suffered loss in my career for not being obedient. Believe me, the loss was little compared to the fear all of you stomach every d...

  We’re all just walking each other home.

  They are not little

We lose ourselves in things we love.  We find ourselves there, too.

People are not of symmetrical importance in each others memories.

 The past is never dead. It’s not even past

You've got to know when to hold 'em Know when to fold 'em Know when to walk away And know when to run  You never count your mone...

  It’s never fifty-fifty. It’s always seventy-thirty, or sixty-forty.

Meanwhile at a small Balkan country 

A short comment on Greek elections

Like any dealer he was watching for the card That is so high and wild He'll never need to deal another

What was the last time you did something for the first time ?

Two recent cases Down Under show how dangerous Twittermobs can be. By BRENDAN O’NEILL One of the curious things about the twenty-firs...

Of interest and the dangerous habit of suppressing it By  Detlev Schlichter   The idea that the charging of interest is unethical and...

‘Positive Money’ and the fallacy of the need for a state money producer By Detlev Schlichter I am usually inclined to encourage the i...

Sarajevo Is The Fulcrum Of Modern History By David Stockman One hundred years ago today the world was shook loose of its moorings. ...

These Fake Rallies Will End in Tears By  Detlev S Schlichter Investors and speculators face some profound challenges today: How to de...