"Autobiographies of great nations are written in three manuscripts – a book of deeds, a book of words, and a book of art. Of the three, I would choose the latter as truest testimony." - Sir Kenneth Smith, Great Civilisations

"I must write each day without fail, not so much for the success of the work, as in order not to get out of my routine." - Leo Tolstoy

I have never believed that one should wait until one is inspired because I think the pleasures of not writing are so great that if you ever start indulging them you will never write again. - John Updike

"The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another; and his humblest hour is when he compares the volume as it is with what he vowed to make it." - J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan

Poetry is the shadow cast by our streetlight imaginations." - Lawrence Ferlinghetti


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Tuesday, August 30, 2011

Awesome Indie quotes

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I wanted your secret to be about me.
Like mine was about you.
But it wasn't.
'My body is a cage that
keeps me from dancing with the one I love.'


A careless bird is complicated,
an empty nest still leaves a space.'


'They might get a little better air
if they turned themselves into a cloud.'


"You look so good in the clothes of a poser
And when you smiled all the kids fell apart here
I know a place where it's warm and it's dry, dear
Let me take you there"



I'd like to see you undone.
Youth's the most unfaithful mistress.

Still we forge ahead to miss her.
Rushing our moment to shine.



I want to buy you a lot of pretty things
and shyly offer them to you one at a time.



I wish we'd always wake up new.
Refreshed and born again
with nothing left to lose.



Because if seeing is believeing,
then believe that we have lost our eyes.



While you are away
My heart comes undone
Slowly unravels
In a ball of yarn.



Not knowing how to think,
I scream aloud, begin to sink,
My legs and arms are broken down,
With envy for the solid ground,

I'm reaching for the life within me,
How can one man stop his ending,

I thought of just your face,
Relaxed, and floated into space.



And I found this boy, he had a girlfriend at home,
But I swear I didn´t know for sure, and he said wait don´t go,
can I walk you home, to your hotel or so.



I think i'm a little bit in love with you,
But only if you're a little bit, little bit,
Little bit, In lalalala love with me.




I'm a bad boy cause I don't even miss her,
I'm a bad boy for breakin her heart,
And I'm free, free fallin, fallin.




Words are very unnecessary
They can only do harm,
Enjoy the silence...




You know that I could use somebody,
Someone like you and all you know,
And how you speak.



This is how it works,
You're young until you're not,
You love until you don't,
You try until you can't,
You laugh until you cry,
You cry until you laugh,
And everyone must breathe,
Until their dying breath.


On the radio,
We heard November Rain,
That solo's real long,

But it's a pretty song,
We listened to it twice,

Cause the DJ was asleep.


Tell me am I right to think that there could be nothing better,
Than making you my bride and slowly growing old together?
Don't you feed me lies about some idealistic future,
Your heart won't heal right if you keep tearing out the sutures.


Those three words,
Are said too much,
They're not enough.



That's why I copy and paste into your folder with your name,
it'd be more than I can take if I just told you, told you what I feel.



You talk too much.
Maybe that's your way,
Of breaking up the silence,
That fills you up.


I know that we're takin' chances,
you told me life was a risk,
but I just have one last question...
will it be my heart or will it be his?


I think separation is ok,
You’re no star to guide me anyway.



You are my sweetest downfall,
I loved you first.



And tomorrow there's no school,
So lets go drink some more Red Bull,
And not get home 'till about 6:00 o'clock.






*for more awesome Indie/Emo/Alternative quotes from songs and elsewhere
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