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NEPENTHE JOURNAL

QUOTE OF THE MOMENT ARCHIVES

WET WITH MORNING DEW.
I GO IN THE DIRECTION I WANT.
-Santeka Taneda-
 THE PLACE YOU'RE AT
IS YOUR HABITAT
EVERYWHERE ELSE YOU'RE A FOREIGNER -Ogden Nash-		 "Yeah, I destroyed my liver,lost ten years of my life,and spent a lot of time puking up in the back of police cars because I wanted a book deal."

-Jerry Stahl, Spin Magazine July 1998-

Showed me pictures in the gallery
Showed me novels on the shelf
Put my hands across the table
Gave me knowledge of myself.
Showed me visions, showed me nightmares
Gave me dreams that never end
Showed me light out of the tunnel
When there was darkness all around instead.

-Tore Down A la Rimbaud, VTM-

 YOU CANNOT CREATE EXPERIENCE
YOU MUST UNDERGO IT
-Albert Camus- 		I TELL YOU ALL MY SECRETS
BUT I LIE ABOUT MY PAST

-TOM WAITS-
I would rather be ashes than dust!
I would rather that my spark burn out in a brilliant blaze than it be stifled by dry-rot.
I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.
-Jack London, 1916-

FOR IN MY TIME,
I HAVE SEEN MUCH
ON WAR AND WAVE
SO LET THIS NEW DISASTER COME
IT ONLY MAKES ONE MORE
-The Odyessy, Homer-

Be brave, saith my heart, for I am a warrior,
I have seen worse sights than this.
-The Illiad, Homer-
And many miles to go before I sleep
And many miles to go before I sleep

-Robert Frost-

 Now then, I have studied, in my time,
the plans and minds of great ones by the score.
And I have traveled over a good part of the world
but never once have I laid eyes on a man like him
-from The Odyssey, Homer-
 YOU CAN'T SLOW DOWN
AND YOU CAN'T TURN AROUND

-Van Morrison-

I hear the train a-comin';
it's rollin' 'round the bend,
And I ain't seen the sunshine since I don't know when,
I'm stuck in Vancouver Town and time keeps draggin' on.
But that train keeps a-rollin'
On down to Saskatchewan.

-paraphrased from Folsom Prison Blues, Johnny Cash-

What is life?
It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.

-Crowfoot, Blackfoot warrior, 1890-

Is everyone in this town on drugs?

-Sean Penn, in U-TURN-
"The gods had condemned Sisyphus to ceaselessly rolling a rock to the top of a mountain, whence the stone would fall back of its own weight. They had thought with some reason that there is no more dreadful punishment than futile and hopeless labor." - The Myth of Sisyphus If it's not here
than it's somewhere down the road

Steve Earl-

 "If you can't run away from your problems what can you run away from?"

-Greg Kent, August 27/1994-
"Be indulgent when you compare us to those who have been the perfection of order- we who seek everywhere for adventure.
We are not your enemies
We wish to offer you vast & strange domains."

-Appollinaire, The Pretty Redhead-
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