What's your favorite line or lyric?
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Re: What's your favorite line or lyric?
Funeral Blues by W.H Auden
Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone.
Prevent the dog from barking with a juicy bone,
Silence the pianos and with muffled drum
Bring out the coffin, let the mourners come.
Let aeroplanes circle moaning overhead
Scribbling in the sky the message He is Dead,
Put crêpe bows round the white necks of the public doves,
Let the traffic policemen wear black cotton gloves.
He was my North, my South, my East and West,
My working week and my Sunday rest
My noon, my midnight, my talk, my song;
I thought that love would last forever, I was wrong.
The stars are not wanted now; put out every one,
Pack up the moon and dismantle the sun.
Pour away the ocean and sweep up the wood;
For nothing now can ever come to any good.
So sad, so descriptive.
(I've never seen 4 weddings and a funeral, so I'm probably one of the only people in the world who hadn't heard this before )
Attributed to Groucho Marx
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Your stare was holdin', Ripped jeans, skin was showin'
Hot night, wind was blowin'
Where you think you're going, baby?
[Chorus]
Hey, I just met you,
and this is crazy,
but here's my number,
so call me, maybe?
It's hard to look right,
at you baby,
but here's my number,
so call me, maybe?
Hey, I just met you,
and this is crazy,
but here's my number,
so call me, maybe?
And all the other boys,
try to chase me,
but here's my number,
so call me, maybe?"
Call Me Maybe-Carly Rae Jepsen
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― Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
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Saw my baby there
Streched out on a long white table
So sweet, so cold, so fair.
Sixteen coal-black horses
Hitched to a rubber-tired hack
Seven women goin to the graveyard
Only six are comin back.
I want six crap shooters to be my pall-bearers
Three pretty women to sing a song
Have a jazz band sitting on my hearse-wagon
Playin the blues as we roll along.
St. James Infirmary.
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This kind of thunder breaks
walls and window pane
The Prodigy...Great Song!
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~still laughing~
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Anthony's ex wife Margaret quietly said this to him in "The Sense Of An Ending" because he's a bit clueless and she couldn't hold his hand forever. Also, she's the only sane one in the book and author Julian Barnes no longer had a use for her stability.
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"Oh how wrong we were to think that immortality meant never dying."
I understand what it means and the truth to it, or at least what it means to me, but I'd quite like to hear what you people have to say about it.
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Zen and the Art...Prizig
― Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance