Act Soon. Expect Nothing.: reflections on memory: selective

Places of Interest

"And perhaps that might be the way to write this book - to open the page and let the stories crawl in by themselves." - John Steinbeck 'Cannery Row'
"I always write a good first line, but I have trouble in writing the others." - Moliere
"Writing it the only thing that, when I do it, I don't feel I should be doing something else." -Gloria Steinem'
"Write the things which thou hast seen, and the things which are, and the things that shall be hereafter." - Revelations 1:19
"All good books have one thing in common - they are truer than if they had really happened." - Ernest Hemingway

"His life said: Act Soon. His death said: Expect nothing" -Paul Theroux, 'Saint Jack'
"Some kisses," said Lyndell, "can explode the whole set plans of a life." -Anais Nin, 'Waste of Timelessness'
"You begin saving the world by saving one man at a time - all else is grandiose, romanticism or politics." -Charles Bukowski
"...for I mingle with my peers or no one, and since I have no peers, I mingle with no one." -John Kennedy Toole, 'A Confederacy of Dunces'
"Sorry is a Christly bloody useless word." -Margaret Lawrence, 'The Diviners'
"I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it." -Alice Walker, 'The Color Purple'
"The Road of Excess leads to the Palace of Wisdom." -William Blake
"They were better than lovers; they were conspirators." -Margaret Sweatman, 'When Alice Lay Down With Peter'
"Love forgives the lover even his lust." -Neitzche
"Yes, and thanks for the trouble you took from her eyes. I thought it was there for good, so I never really tried." -Leonard Cohen, 'Famous Blue Raincoat'
"Friendship is the perfection of love, and superior to love; it is love purified, exalted, proved by experience and consent of minds. Love, Madam, may, and love does, often stop short of friendship." -Samuel Richardson