Eyes Wide Open: "He Was No More Than A Baby Then..."

Friday, February 17, 2012

"He Was No More Than A Baby Then..."

Lovers, Stevie Nicks.

Today is a day for channeling her spirit, her glamour, her strength, her hardcore and her style.

I listen to songs from Bella Donna and I find the perfect sort of female strength to model.

Give me attitude and give me fire.

That I may overpower my manuscript and beat it into submission with my gravelly vocal inflections and my plunging lace necklines.

I will be Stevie Nicks today. I will fight. I will sing. I will not give up, and I will win.

And this writer's block will be banished.

Just like the white-winged dove sings a song, sounds like she's singing, "ooh, baby, say ooh."

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A Few Favorite Quotes

"Words are flowing out like endless rain into a paper cup. They slither while they pass, they slip away across the universe."- The Beatles

"His heart beat faster and faster as Daisy's white face came up to his own. He knew that when he kissed this girl, and forever wed his unutterable visions to her perishable breath, his mind would never romp again like the mind of God. So he waited, listening for a moment longer to the tuning-fork that had been struck upon a star. Then he kissed her. At his lips' touch she blossomed for him like a flower and the incarnation was complete." -F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

"If a girl looks swell when she meets you, who gives a damn if she's late? - Nobody." J.D. Salinger, Catcher in the Rye

"A community is the mental and spiritual condition of knowing that the place is shared, and that the people who share the place define and limit the possibilities of each other's lives. It is the knowledge that people have of each other, their concern for each other, their trust in each other, the freedom with which they come and go among themselves." -Wendell Berry

"Remember to always be yourself. Unless you suck." -Joss Whedon

"There comes a time when you look into the mirror and you realize that what you see is all that you will ever be. And then you accept it. Or you kill yourself. Or you stop looking in mirrors." -Tennessee Williams

"I was never insane except upon occasions when my heart was touched." - Edgar Allan Poe

"If you find yourself asking yourself (and your friends) Am I Really A Writer? Am I Really An Artist? Chances are, you are. The counterfeit innovator is wildly self-confident. The real one is scared to death." -Steven Pressfield, The War of Art

"According to Greek Mythology, humans were originally created with four arms, four legs, and a head with two faces. Fearing their power, Zeus split them into two separate beings, condemning them to spend their lives in search of their other halves." -Plato, "The Symposium"

"Everything carries me to you. As if everything that exists, aromas, lights, metals, were little boats that sail toward those isles of yours that wait for me." - Pablo Neruda

"Listen, smile, agree, and then do whatever the fuck you were gonna do anyway." - Robert Downey, Jr.

"You know that place between sleep and awake? The place where you can still remember dreaming. That's where I'll always love you. That's where I'll be waiting." - J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan

"For the moon never beams without bringing me dreams
Of the beautiful Annabel Lee;
And the stars never rise but I feel the bright eyes
Of the beautiful Annabel Lee;
And so, all the night-tide, I lie down by the side
Of my darling- my darling- my life and my bride,
In the sepulchre there by the sea,
In her tomb by the sounding sea."
-Edgar Allan Poe, "Annabel Lee"

"What a shame to convince these flames they are only sparks;
What a misfortune to say this fire is a flame.
You,
have always been gasoline,
Stop pretending
I
Haven't always been the match."
-Tyler Knott Gregson, "Typewriter Series #291"

"I ain't afraid to love a man. I ain't afraid to shoot him, either." -Annie Oakley

"I love sleep. My life has a tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know?" - Ernest Hemingway

"God never slams a door in your face without opening up a box of girl scout cookies." -Elizabeth Gilbert, "Eat Pray Love"

"It was only a sunny smile, and little it cost in the giving, but like morning light it scattered the night and made the day worth living." -F. Scott Fitzgerald

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Friday, February 17, 2012

"He Was No More Than A Baby Then..."

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