“I guide my fate
And what it's good for
There's no telling
It's blood
It's a flood”

— John Frusciante

The Slaughter
Lyrics, Shadows Collide with People (2004)

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John Frusciante 24

American guitarist, singer, songwriter and record producer 1970

John Conington (1825–1869) British classical scholar

Source: Translations, The Aeneid of Virgil (1866), Book VI, p. 189

“What if English toil and blood
Was poured forth, even as a flood?
It availed, Oh, Liberty,
To dim, but not extinguish thee.”

Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822) English Romantic poet

St. 60
(1819)

“Everytime you see a flood like that on the news you tell yourself: That's it. That's my heart.”

Haruki Murakami book Kafka on the Shore

Source: Kafka on the Shore

“wholly to be a fool
while Spring is in the world my blood approves,
and kisses are a better fate
than wisdom”

E.E. Cummings (1894–1962) American poet

Four VII
is 5 (1926)

“Blood tells — always remember that — blood tells.”

Agatha Christie book The Mysterious Affair at Styles

The Mysterious Affair at Styles (1920)

“What have you done, you standing there
In floods of tears?
Tell me what you have done
With your young life?”

Paul Verlaine (1844–1896) French poet

Qu'as-tu fait, ô toi que voilà
Pleurant sans cesse,
Dis, qu'as-tu fait, toi que voilà
De ta jeunesse?
"Le ciel est, par-dessus le toit", line 13, from Sagesse (1880); Sorrell p. 111

“All my brothers and brothers-in-laws tell me what a good-hearted guy I am. You don't get to be good-hearted by accident.”

Paddy Chayefsky (1923–1981) American playwright, screenwriter and novelist

Marty (1955)
Context: All my brothers and brothers-in-laws tell me what a good-hearted guy I am. You don't get to be good-hearted by accident. You get kicked around long enough, you become a professor of pain.

Marty Pilletti.