dark am i, yet lovely, a lily among thorns, majestic as stars in procession

dark am i, yet lovely, a lily among thorns, majestic as stars in procession
WHY DESTROY YOURSELF? WHY DIE BEFORE YOUR TIME? THE KEEPERS OF THE HOUSE TREMBLE. DESIRE IS NO LONGER STIRRED. DO NOT CONFORM ANY LONGER TO THE PATTERN OF THIS WORLD.

Friday, 10 September 2010

Big Issue Picture

Photograph by Julie Collins

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And the panel of esteemed Koestler judges here:


Now that's out the way, The Blob can focus on uploading short romantic love stories of an uplifting feel-good nature! To be honest, rehashing all that dreary stuff was just like writing a character's history. The past is just that, if you let it be; somebody else's problems. It is almost like it is not attached to you any more, if you are determinedly preoccupied with the future.

I have a theory of my own, called 'Wipe the Hard Drive Theory', which means that one day you can wake up and totally change the way you are. It takes 4 weeks. I call this the '28 Day Principle'. I've done it 4 times! I changed, changed back again, changed, and changed back again....
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"The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there."
Lesley P. Hartley

"The one charm of the past is that it is the past."
Oscar Wilde

"We need not destroy the past. It is gone."
John Cage

"I was so in the present moment the past was no longer part of me."
Terri Guillemets

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