Nelson Algren (1909–1981) American novelist, short story writer
Source: Chicago: City on the Make (1951), Chapter 2, ""Are you a Christian?""
Context: [About Chicago:] It's every man for himself in this hired air. / Yet once you've come to be part of this particular patch, you'll never love another. Like loving a woman with a broken nose, you may well find lovelier lovelies. But never a lovely so real.
Cheryl Strayed book Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar
Source: Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar
“You blessed my life!
Never on me had rested woman's love.”
Edmond Rostand (1868–1918) French writer
Cyrano, Act 5, Sc. 6
Cyrano de Bergerac (1897)
Context: You blessed my life!
Never on me had rested woman's love.
My mother even could not find me fair:
I had no sister; and, when grown a man,
I feared the mistress who would mock at me.
But I have had your friendship — grace to you
A woman's charm has passed across my path.
David Lynch book Catching the Big Fish
Ideas, p. 23
Catching the Big Fish (2006)
Context: An idea is a thought. It's a thought that holds more than you think it does when you receive it. But in that first moment there is a spark. In a comic strip, if someone gets an idea, a lightbulb goes on. It happens in an instant, just as in life.
It would be great if the entire film came all at once. But it comes, for me, in fragments. That first fragment is like the Rosetta stone. It's the piece of the puzzle that indicates the rest. It's a hopeful puzzle piece.
In Blue Velvet, it was red lips, green lawns, and the song — Bobby Vinton's version of "Blue Velvet". The next thing was an ear lying in a field. And that was it.
You fall in love with the first idea, that little tiny piece. And once you've got it, the rest will come in time.
“The truly faithless one is the one who makes love to only a fraction of you. And denies the rest.”
Anaïs Nin (1903–1977) writer of novels, short stories, and erotica
February, 1932
Diary entries (1914 - 1974)
“If you truly love nature, you will find beauty everywhere.”
Vincent Van Gogh (1853–1890) Dutch post-Impressionist painter (1853-1890)
Gilbert O'Sullivan (1946) Irish singer-songwriter
"Who Was It?" (song) <br class="br"> (+ Cover version by Davy Jones on YouTube) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ogzt6NntvrE <br class="br">Song lyrics <br class="br">Source: Gilbert O'Sullivan, "Who Was It?" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5FDzXcD1mDg (song on YouTube)
Henry Drummond (1851–1897) Scottish evangelist, writer and lecturer
Variant: You will find, as you look back upon your life, that the moments when you really lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.
