Ernest Hemingway book The Sun Also Rises
Robert Cohn to Jake Barnes, in Book 1, Ch. 2
The Sun Also Rises (1926)
Source: Love in the Time of Cholera
Ernest Hemingway book The Sun Also Rises
Robert Cohn to Jake Barnes, in Book 1, Ch. 2
The Sun Also Rises (1926)
Mark Haddon book The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Source: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Smokey Robinson (1940) American R&B singer-songwriter and record producer
Shop Around, written by Smokey Robinson and Berry Gordy, Jr. (1960)
Song lyrics, With The Miracles
Billy Joel (1949) American singer-songwriter and pianist
Don't Ask Me Why.
Song lyrics, Glass Houses (1980)
Elton John (1947) English rock singer-songwriter, composer and pianist
Your Song
Song lyrics, Elton John (1970)
Andy Warhol (1928–1987) American artist
Source: 1975, The Philosophy of Andy Warhol (1975), Ch. 7: Time
Context: Sometimes you're invited to a big ball and for months you think about how glamorous and exciting it's going to be. Then you fly to Europe and you go to the ball and when you think back on it a couple of months later what you remember is maybe the car ride to the ball, you can't remember the ball at all. Sometimes the little times you don't think are anything while they're happening turn out to be what marks a whole period of your life. I should have been dreaming for months about the car ride to the ball and getting dressed for the car ride, and buying my ticket to Europe so I could take the car ride. Then, who knows, maybe I could have remembered the ball.
Fernando Pessoa (1888–1935) Portuguese poet, writer, literary critic, translator, publisher and philosopher
Para ser grande, sê inteiro: nada
Teu exagera ou exclui.
Sê todo em cada coisa. Põe quanto és
No mínimo que fazes.
Assim em cada lago a lua toda
Brilha, porque alta vive.
Ricardo Reis (heteronym), Ode (14 February 1933), in A Little Larger Than the Entire Universe, trans. Richard Zenith (Penguin, 2006)
Source: Poems of Fernando Pessoa