A Theory of Semiotics by Umberto Eco

"Semiotics is in principle the discipline studying everything which can be used in order to lie. If something cannot be used to tell a lie, conversely it cannot be used to tell the truth: it cannot in fact be used 'to tell' at all."

Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë

"It is hard to forgive, and to look at those eyes, and feel those wasted hands."

"and wondered how anyone could ever imagine unquiet slumbers for the sleepers in that quiet earth."

This Isa Nice Neighborhood by Farid Matuk

"We all joined the astronaut corps and are waiting in line for the moon."

"I'm sorry you have to leave Mexico, that's how much I love you."
- Tallying Song 2.13.2008

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Bolinas Journal by Joe Brainard

"A little girl wants a quarter. Giving her a nickel she mumbles "motherfucker" and walks away."

"We were talking about life yesterday, Bill and I (yes, life) and Bill was saying how his idea of being happy was to spend the whole day in bed with someone. (Me too)."

I Remember by Joe Brainard

"I remember how much rock and roll music can hurt. It can be so free and sexy when you are not."

"I remember how disappointing going to bed with one of the most beautiful boys I have ever seen was."

"I remember those times of not knowing if you feel really happy or really sad. (Wet eyes and a high heart.)"

Hamlet by William Shakespeare

"It is not nor it cannot come to good.
But break, my heart; for I must hold my tongue."

"A violet in the youth of primy nature,
Forward, not permanent, sweet, not lasting,
The perfume and suppliance of a minute.
No more."

"Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice"

Red Wind by Raymond Chandler

"I sipped my drink. I like an effect as well as the next fellow. Her eyes ate me."

"She wasn't beautiful, she wasn't even pretty, but she looked as if things would happen where she was."

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