Matthew Arnold (1822–1888) English poet and cultural critic who worked as an inspector of schools
Source: Longing
"Mushaboom"
Let It Die (2004)
Matthew Arnold (1822–1888) English poet and cultural critic who worked as an inspector of schools
Source: Longing
Jonathan Safran Foer book Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
Oskar during a visit to his therapist, Dr. Fein
"Happiness, Happiness" (p. 201)
Source: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (2005)
Context: "I feel too much. That's what's going on." "Do you think one can feel too much? Or just feel the wrong ways? "My insides don't match up with my outsides." "Do anyone's inside and outsides match up?" "I don't know. I'm only me." "Maybe that's what a person's personality is: the difference between the inside and the outside." "But it's worse for me." "I wonder if everyone thinks it's worse for him." "Probably. But it really is worse for me."
“You are my forbidden dream, the most addictive, the dream of every day that invades my mind.”
Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer
Original: Sei il mio sogno proibito, il più coinvolgente, il sogno di ogni giorno che invade la mia mente.
Source: prevale.net
John Steinbeck book The Winter of Our Discontent
The Winter of Our Discontent (1961), unplaced by chapter
Walther von der Vogelweide (1170–1230) Middle High German lyric poet
Owê war sint verswunden alliu mîniu jâr<br>ist mir mîn leben getroumet oder ist ez wâr. <br class="br">"Owe war sint verswunden alliu mîniu jâr", line 1; translation by Graeme Dunphy. http://www.dunphy.de/ac/Walther.html
“My bad luck got tangled up with my bad decisions, and I'm paying for it.”
Patrick Rothfuss book The Wise Man's Fear
Source: The Wise Man's Fear
Margaret Thatcher (1925–2013) British stateswoman and politician
The News of the World (20 September 1981), quoted in Chris Ogden, Maggie: An Intimate Portrait of a Woman in Power (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1990), p. 342.
First term as Prime Minister