Rewriting

"The best writing is rewriting," wrote E. B. White.  Every good writer knows this, and it's true for software too.   The most important part of design is redesign.  --Paul Graham

No time to stand and stare

No time to stand beneath the boughs
And stare as long as sheep or cows.

No time to see, in broad daylight,
Streams full of stars, like skies at night.

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Poem: Leisure
Writer: Wm. Henry Davies

One who loved to love

You who loved to love,
And believed we can never give enough.

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Song: The day before the day
Writer: Dido
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OJcrFfE5QMI

You ditch your life to stay alive

Don't matter if you're rich and strong
Don't matter if you're weak
Don't matter if you write a song
The nightingales repeat
Don't matter if it's nine to five
Or timeless and unique
You ditch your life to stay alive
A thousand kisses deep

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Poem: Thousand Kisses Deep
Writer: Leonard Cohen
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xXaRT8CXmGE

Faith

You must have heard about the tremendous power of faith.  It is said in the Purana that Rama, who was God Himself -- the embodiment of the Absolute Brahman -- had to build a bridge to cross the sea to Ceylon.  But Hanuman, His devotee, trusting in Rama's name, cleared the sea in one jump and reached the other side.  He had no need of a bridge.

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Book: The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna

You can't do that

You can't just walk up to a woman you barely know and tell her you like her. You can't. You can't do that. You don't know what she's going through. Or what she's feeling.

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Movie: 21 Grams, Christina telling Paul

Dust and air

Blessed father, watch over my wife and son with a ready sword. Whisper to them that I live only to hold them again, for all else is dust and air.

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Movie: Gladiator, Maximus praying

Marshal, you have no friends.

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Movie: Shutter Island, Rachel says to the protagonist.

What's up?

But anyways, fuck it. What's been up, man?

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Song: Stan by Eminem

Alice

I guess she's got her reasons,
But I just don't wanna know.

Now I've got to get used to
not living next door to Alice.

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Song: Living Next Door to Alice by Smokie