
Source: "Chinese Model Liu Wen Would Like to Remind Everyone That Not All Asians Look the Same" https://www.allure.com/story/liu-wen-model-interview in Allure (2 March 2016)
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified
Source: "Chinese Model Liu Wen Would Like to Remind Everyone That Not All Asians Look the Same" https://www.allure.com/story/liu-wen-model-interview in Allure (2 March 2016)
“Thus, though we cannot make our sun
Stand still, yet we will make him run.”
Source: To His Coy Mistress (1650-1652)
Context: Let us roll all our strength and all
Our sweetness up into one ball,
And tear our pleasures with rough strife
Thorough the iron gates of life:
Thus, though we cannot make our sun
Stand still, yet we will make him run.
On her home-studio in Bethnal Green, as quoted in "Still breaking the mould" by Gordon Burn in The Guardian (11 October 2005) http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/features/story/0,11710,1589344,00.html
Glenn Beck program on CNN (2 November 2006) http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0611/02/gb.01.html
2000s
“There is no happily-ever-after to run to. We have to work for happiness.”
Source: Simply Magic
“It is not that we have a short space of time, but that we waste much of it. Life is long enough.”
Non exiguum temporis habemus, sed multum perdidimus. Satis longa vita.
De Brevitate Vitae ("On the Shortness of Life", trans. John W. Basore), Ch. 1
Moral Essays