“
Sadyang mailap ang humanap ng tunay na pag-ibig. Madaling sabihing mahal kita, madaling isiping mahal ka niya, pero paano mo malalamang... ito na, eto na talaga?
”
”
Ramon Bautista (Bakit Hindi Ka Crush ng Crush Mo?)
“
Simply put, the best revenge is to live an awesome life.
”
”
Ramon Bautista (Bakit Hindi Ka Crush ng Crush Mo?)
“
There's more to life than love.
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Ramon Bautista (Bakit Hindi Ka Crush ng Crush Mo?)
“
Kung hindi mutual ang felings natin, pwes, gagawin kong mutual. Ayaw ko na rin sa'yo.
”
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Ramon Bautista (Bakit Hindi Ka Crush ng Crush Mo?)
“
The only stupid question is the question that is never asked.
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Ramon Bautista (Bakit Hindi Ka Crush ng Crush Mo?)
“
Hindi ako naniniwala sa fate, destiny at soul mates. Ang mundo ay binubuo ng mga pangyayaring random na kaganapan. Bahala ka sa buhay mo.
”
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Ramon Bautista (Bakit Hindi Ka Crush ng Crush Mo?)
“
Some people you meet and they're your friend for a day. Some you meet and you never really know at all. And then there are those who get caught inside your soul and stay there forever.
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Melodie Ramone (After Forever Ends)
“
Any man could, if he were so inclined, be the sculptor of his own brain.
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Santiago Ramón y Cajal (Advice for a Young Investigator (Mit Press))
“
90% ng problema mo ay imbento lang.
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Ramon Bautista (Bakit Hindi Ka Crush ng Crush Mo?)
“
TANDAAN: mahirap mafriendzone, pero madali lang gumanti!
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”
Ramon Bautista (Bakit Hindi Ka Crush ng Crush Mo?)
“
Life is fun if you just find out how.
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”
Ramon Bautista (Bakit Hindi Ka Crush ng Crush Mo?)
“
When Liam stepped forward again, Derek's arm shot around me , a growl vibrating up from his stomach.
Liam put his hand out toward me. When Derek tensed he pilled back, then did it again, testing his reaction, laughing when he got one, untill even Ramone started to laugh.
"Check this out," Liam said. "I think the pup's got himself a mate. Isn't that the cutest thing?
”
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Kelley Armstrong (The Awakening (Darkest Powers, #2))
“
Mga 3days-3weeks tapos unahan na yan mag-offline kunyari naputol connection ng internet pero naputol na yung mental and emotional connection.
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Ramon Bautista (Bakit Hindi Ka Crush ng Crush Mo?)
“
Mum used to say we were the same soul split in two and walking around on four legs. It seems unnatural being born together and then dying apart.
”
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Melodie Ramone (After Forever Ends)
“
Kapag sumablay ka, isipin mo na lang na nagsimula ka din naman sa wala at walang nagbago.
”
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Ramon Bautista (Bakit Hindi Ka Crush ng Crush Mo?)
“
TANDAAN: your mind is your weapon. Pagyamanin natin ito at magiging handa tayo sa gulo na dulot ng paghihimagsik ng puso at bird.
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Ramon Bautista (Bakit Hindi Ka Crush ng Crush Mo?)
“
Naniniwala ako na may tatlong decision making bodies ang mga tao. Utak, puso at bird.
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”
Ramon Bautista (Bakit Hindi Ka Crush ng Crush Mo?)
“
I pop a cassette into the Buick's stereo. It's the Ramones. I turn the volume up high and roll down the windows. The highway air tastes of fumes, but it still feels goddamn good to breathe
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”
Hank Moody (God Hates Us All)
“
I am not I.
I am this one
walking beside me whom I do not see,
whom at times I manage to visit,
and whom at other times I forget;
who remains calm and silent while I talk,
and forgives, gently, when I hate,
who walks where I am not,
who will remain standing when I die.
”
”
Juan Ramón Jiménez
“
Valdin softened slightly. “Ramon you have been very well paid for this trip and I am sure that for a little extra gold the crew will not miss their shore leave. My job is done.” With that the huntsman shook Ramon’s hand and left the ship.
Robert Reid – The Son
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Robert Reid (The Son (The Emperor, the Son and the Thief, #2))
“
TANDAAN:daig ng malandi ang mabait.
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Ramon Bautista (Bakit Hindi Ka Crush ng Crush Mo?)
“
I love you, Silvia. I have always loved you. I loved you before forever began and I’ll love you still after forever ends.” --Oliver
”
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Melodie Ramone (After Forever Ends)
“
Over time, I have realized that at 20, you can wear too much makeup and people assume you're a slut. Do it at 40 and they think you're a sea witch.
”
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Melodie Ramone
“
I unpetalled you, like a rose,
to see your soul,
and I didn't see it.
But everything around
-horizons of land and of seas-,
everything, out to the infinite,
was filled with a fragrance,
enormous and alive.
”
”
Juan Ramón Jiménez
“
It's my estimation that every man ever got a statue made of him was one kind of a son of a bitch or another. --Malcolm Reynolds
”
”
Melodie Ramone
“
Hear, hear.' Sister Martha hoisted her water glass. 'Let the rigid stick of self-righteousness be dislodged from her very uptight ass.'
Father Ramon coughed.
'A-fucking-men,' Loup supplied helpfully.
”
”
Jacqueline Carey (Santa Olivia (Santa Olivia, #1))
“
Just because you have to walk sometimes doesn't mean life isn't taking you places.
”
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Melodie Ramone
“
I'd like to thank myself, and congratulate myself, and give myself a big pat on the back.
”
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Dee Dee Ramone
“
Our books are the deepest glimpses into our souls, the most raw and real anybody will ever find us.
”
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Melodie Ramone
“
This is a book for every fiddler who has realized halfway through playing an ancient Scottish air that the Ramones "I Wanna Be Sedated" is what folk music is really all about, and gone straight into it.
”
”
Neil Gaiman (The Good Fairies of New York)
“
Kapag si Aga Muhlach ang nanligaw, ready o hindi ready, Re-ready yan kasi gusto siya eh.
”
”
Ramon Bautista (Bakit Hindi Ka Crush ng Crush Mo?)
“
Now they are empty, Ramon replied with a shrug of broad, muscled shoulders on his six-foot-three-inch frame....For the first time, a glint of humor touched Ramon Galverra's finely sculpted mouth and arrogant dark eyes.
”
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Judith McNaught (Tender Triumph)
“
. We were young. Love had a way of making us fearless because we knew that no matter what happened, if we fell on our face as we entered the ring or conquered the world in battle, in the end it would just be us, together.
”
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Melodie Ramone (After Forever Ends)
“
Ramon looked closely at the little guy as he ate. "Maybe he's Jewish. I mean, if Sammy Davis Jr. could convert to Judaism, why not a chupacabra? We should name him Harry Mendelbaum."
I held up my arms in protest. "You're all racist. Now shut up. We'll call him Taco von Precious of Svenenstein. There, everybody happy?"
"Isn't von the same thing as of?" Frank asked. "Wouldn't that be kind of redundant?"
"You're redundant," I said.
”
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Lish McBride (Necromancing the Stone (Necromancer, #2))
“
You'll find that sometimes there is a huge valley between what we want to be and what we're capable of.
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Stephanie Kuehnert (I Wanna Be Your Joey Ramone)
“
I'm pretty much looking for beauty all the time. It just seems like some days the light is better to see it.
”
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Melodie Ramone
“
I had a daddy, didn't I? He wasn't perfect and he certainly wasn't the one I'd dreamed he would have been, but I had one all the same. And I'd love him as much as I'd hated him, hadn't I? All that distance, all that time wasted, but the fact that he'd inspired such passion in me meant something in itself. I can honestly say now that I think that's special. Screwed up and turned inside out, we were special him and me, and I am so thankful that I can say that I had a daddy and that he mattered. All his faults and failures mean nothing to me now.
”
”
Melodie Ramone (After Forever Ends)
“
Sometimes the changes are good. Sometimes you think they're good and you end up disappointed. Other times you think life has handed you a lemon and it turn out to be a diamond. And there are other times when it just is what it is. It's not what you wanted, but there's nothing you can do about it, so you just have to accept what's happened and go on
”
”
Melodie Ramone (After Forever Ends)
“
I made up my mind right then what I really wanted in my life. It was comfort of a home and a family. But more than that, I wanted love. I wanted love to surround me. I wanted to swim in it. I wanted to hold it in my hand like heated sand and pour it through my fingers so it covered my feet. I wanted to taste it, I wanted to smell it. I wanted to wrap myself up in it like a blanket and stay safe and warm inside of it forever. And I wanted to give it. I wanted to drown people in it. I wanted to love with all my heart and be loved just as much in return.
”
”
Melodie Ramone (After Forever Ends)
“
Lou's such an old punk he was around when the Ramones were junkie hustlers first and musicians second, when punk meant something other than a mass-marketing concept designed to help the bridge-and-tunnel crowd feel cool.
”
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Rachel Cohn (Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist)
“
TANDAAN: daig ng malandi ang maganda.
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Ramon Bautista (Bakit Hindi Ka Crush ng Crush Mo?)
“
Are we going where I think we are?” he asked.
“Hell, yeah,” I told him, turning the key in the ignition. I steered the car toward the highway that would take us to my mother’s house. “And I hope she’s got a few good answers.”
“I hope,” Ramon said, “that she’s made cookies.”
I glared at him.
“Don’t look at me like that. If we were going to interrogate my poor mother for whatever, you’d be secretly hoping she’d made you tamales. I’m just honest enough to admit it.
”
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Lish McBride (Hold Me Closer, Necromancer (Necromancer, #1))
“
To live is nothing more than to come here to die, to be what we were before being born, but with apprenticeship, experience, knowledge of cause, and perhaps with will.
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Juan Ramón Jiménez
“
…Perhaps this momentary life of ours is only the light that divides our infinite origin from our infinite end.
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Juan Ramón Jiménez
“
Ignorance isn't a sword. It's a weight that drags a soul swirling to the bottom of the sea.
”
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Melodie Ramone
“
I could not have asked for a better friends or a better life, but there’s a nasty trick about living. It happens at its own pace and in its own way and you never, never know what’s coming next. So you keep running and running to keep up with it and most people get tired. Others don’t get tired. They just get overtaken by the road.
”
”
Melodie Ramone (After Forever Ends)
“
Nothing bothers me more in this world than a person who behaves as a sheep and not as a dragon.
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”
Melodie Ramone (After Forever Ends)
“
I won't argue with you, but still it's secretly turning me into a hateful person. I figure that the best revenge, though, is to leave people to their own devices, and they will make their own lives hell.
”
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Dee Dee Ramone
“
No, I heard some of the staff talking. She’s all bad, that one. They kicked her out of the Lollipop Guild for theft, yeah? And she did community service for bitch-slapping the Mayor of Munchkinland.” -- Alexander
”
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Melodie Ramone (After Forever Ends)
“
At the door I paused. 'So what was your spirit animal?'
'A dolphin. Fun in the sun, endless summer. What about you?'
'Dee Dee Ramone,' I said, and left.
”
”
Elizabeth Hand (Generation Loss (Cass Neary, #1))
“
I always say the world is a better place because of Joey Ramone
”
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Billie Joe Armstrong
“
Just Silvia Cotton, not hurt or ticked off...Just Silvia Cotton and she's just fine....and I love her
”
”
Melodie Ramone (After Forever Ends)
“
Once of the tricks about life is that it’s always changing. Sometimes the changes are good. Sometimes you think they’re good and you end up disappointed. Other times you think life has handed you a lemon and it turns out to be a diamond. And there are other times when it just is what it is. It’s not what you wanted, but there’s nothing you can do about it, so you just have to accept what’s happened and go on. Those are the toughest times in my book, the times when you simply have no choice and life just does what it wants without even asking what anybody thinks.
”
”
Melodie Ramone (After Forever Ends)
“
Write it. Just write it. Write it on receipts in the car while you wait for your kid to finish their piano lessons, scribble on napkins at lunch with friends. Type on crappy typewriters or borrow computers if you have to. Fill notebooks with ink. Write inside your head while you’re in traffic and when you’re sitting in the doctor’s office. Write the truth, write lies. Write the perfect spouse. Write your dreams. Write your nightmares. Write while you cry about what you’re writing, write while you laugh out loud at your own words. Write until your fingers hurt, then keep writing more. Don’t ever stop writing. Don’t ever give up on your story, no matter what “they” say. Don’t ever let anybody take away your voice. You have something to say, your soul has a story to tell. Write it. There is never any reason to be afraid. Just write it and then put it out there for the world. Shove it up a flag pole and see who salutes it. Somebody will say it’s crap. So what? Somebody else will love it. And that’s what writing’s about. Love. Love of the art, love of the story, and love for and from the people who really understand your work. Nobody else matters. Love yourself. Love your work. Be brave. Just write.
”
”
Melodie Ramone
“
I'm just a man, no more enlightened than any other.
”
”
George P. Pelecanos (The Night Gardener)
“
Home is where you find love
”
”
Tashie Bhuiyan (A Show for Two)
“
We didn't have a positive song until we wrote 'Now I Wanna Sniff Some Glue!
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Dee Dee Ramone
“
I love my country enough to risk its wrath by drawing attention to the negative things we don't always want to see. And that can be risky and you have to pay for that. (Ramon Estevez) on Inside the Actor's Studio
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”
Martin Sheen
“
El amor es una construcción de a dos, si no hay dos, quizás no valga la pena.
”
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Ramon Torres (El amor, así de simple, y así de complicado)
“
And some people have less star appeal than others, but sometimes they shine far brighter than those with more.
”
”
Mickey Leigh (I Slept With Joey Ramone)
“
That day, that day when I can gaze at the sea--both of us calm--and I, trusting, having poured my whole heart into my Life Work....when death--black waves!--no longer courts me and I can smile, constantly, at everything because, my bones, there will be so little of myself left to give it.
”
”
Juan Ramón Jiménez (The Poet and the Sea)
“
The days are passing so quickly. This is the only time of year when I want to slow time down. I spend the entire year trying to get here as fast as I can, then once I'm here I want to slam on the brakes. I'm beginning to have those moments when the feel of autumn is so strong it drowns out everything else. Lately it's been making me think about the perfect soundtrack for a Halloween party.
The top of any Halloween music list as to be the theme song from the movie Halloween; right on its heels is "Pet Sematary" by the Ramones. For some reason I've always equated the old Van Morrison song "Moondance" with Halloween, too. I love that song. "Bela Lugosi's Dead" by Bauhaus is an October classic, as well as anything by Type O Negative. And Midnight Syndicate. If you've never heard anything by Midnight Syndicate, look them up right this moment. If you distilled the raw essence of every spooky story you ever heard, you would have Midnight Syndicate. I have a friend who swears by them, believing them to be a vital element of any Halloween party. To finish off the list you must have "The Lyre of Orpheus" by Nick Cave and "I Feel Alright" by Steve Earle.
”
”
Damien Echols (Life After Death)
“
I am that I am
a Goddess, a God
entitled to the deepest and most beautiful sensations
offered by Heaven and Earth
In Love I trust
In Wisdom I am revealed
”
”
Ramon William Ravenswood (Twilight Zone Encounters)
“
Punk is about being an individual and going against the grain and standing up and saying 'This is who I am.
”
”
Joey Ramone
Melodie Ramone (After Forever Ends)
“
Some bloke got put in prison for three days because he refused to stop kissing his boyfriend on a plane flight to South Africa. How magic is that? You can't help but picturing him dressed entirely in latex, surrounded by a sea of hate. --"Alright, lads, I'm gonna make this flight fairly tense for you. Ramon, let's do the bad thing." *kissing sounds*
-"Stop doing that, mate, it's not natural!"
-"You're flying"
-"I'll have you put in prison!"
-"What, with men? Think it through.
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Russell Howard
“
There is indeed a great deal of futility amongst the human race which we do not commonly see, for it all forms part of our illusion; but let a man be much annoyed by something that others do, so that he is separated from them and has to leave them, and looks back at what they are doing, and he'll see at once all manner of whimsical absurdities that he had not noticed before; and Ramon Alonzo in the shade of his oak, waiting for the noon to go by, grew very contemptuous of the attitude that the world took up towards shadows.
”
”
Lord Dunsany (The Charwoman's Shadow)
“
I can't control my fingers I can't control my toes
Oh no no no no no . . .
Ba-ba-bamp-ba ba-ba-ba-bamp-ba I wanna be sedated
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”
Ramones
“
Oracle of Delphi Speaks:
In my deep mystery I breathe
your fragrance swirling in
your odourless soul
I return your mystery
revealing your destiny deep in
the seed of your God Self
”
”
Ramon William Ravenswood (Icons Speak)
“
I love you, Silvia. I have always loved you. I loved you before forever began and I’ll love you still after forever ends.
”
”
Melodie Ramone (After Forever Ends)
“
Christianity is more than just a belief; it is a life of discipline, a firm determination to live a life of prayer and contemplation, a life of self-denial and Christlikeness.
”
”
Ramon M. Torres
Robin Stevenson (The World Without Us)
“
Mother Earth Speaks:
You live in my womb,
learn from my seasons
and grow old in my arms
Listen to my heart
I give you garments
woven in gold
I bless your arrival
then let you fly free
knowing forever we are one
you and I
”
”
Ramon William Ravenswood (Icons Speak)
“
Phoenix Speaks:
Within this urn of stillness
I slumber in deep sleep
Awaiting brave Helios
to warm my gentle ashes
Igniting the flame within my soul
once again I fly to the heavens
”
”
Ramon William Ravenswood (Icons Speak)
“
I was driving in Los Angeles, and somebody called out to me, “Hey, you’re driving a Cadillac. How’s that? How are you a punk if you’re driving a Cadillac?” I said, “What the fuck are you talking about? I wrote the book on punk. I decide what’s punk. If I’m driving a Cadillac, it’s punk.
”
”
Johnny Ramone (Commando: The Autobiography of Johnny Ramone)
“
In the naivete of their youth, they believed Fate to be a kind mistress. None of them were prepared for the beast that was about to pick them up by the throats and shake them until their teeth rattled.
”
”
Melodie Ramone (Burning Down Rome)
“
Sentinels of trees
breathe life into bodies of earthly flesh
As their mighty arms reach to the stars
we join in their quest for Helios’s mighty power
Like sentinels, we seek our place
in the forest of nature’s gentle breath
”
”
Ramon William Ravenswood (Twilight Zone Encounters)
“
Oh, you sweet summer child.” Gideon shakes his head. “There’s no introducing when it comes to Ramon. I can guarantee you, if William Larkin is on the roundtable agenda, Ramon already knows more about his case than you ever will.
”
”
Karen M. McManus (Nothing More to Tell)
“
Porque para ser feliz, hay que poner las culpas, cada una en su lugar.
”
”
Ramon Torres (El amor, así de simple, y así de complicado)
“
If understanding followed no rule at all, there would be no good in the understanding nor in the matter understood, and to remain in ignorance would be the greatest good.
”
”
Ramon Llull
“
Louis volvió a Bangor por el
puente Chamberlain y se instaló en el motel Howard Johnson, en la carretera de Odlin, cerca del
aeropuerto y del cementerio Pleasantview donde estaba enterrado su hijo. Se inscribió con el nombre de
Dee Dee Ramone y pagó en efectivo.
”
”
Stephen King (Pet Sematary)
“
Merlin Speaks:
Ô mighty trees of Avalon
release sap and seeds
into hearts and minds
So Arthur’s dream
can reveal echoes
of futures past
So Camelot’s glory
is forever ingrained
in the rich forests
and mountains’ mysterious valleys
where a once and future King
lowered his sword
and lay in the arms
of his sweet Lady of Forests and Lakes
”
”
Ramon William Ravenswood (Icons Speak)
“
Nefertiti Speaks:
Sands of time released my ancient image
to awaken you to the artistry and splendour
of Egypt’s Camelot
No mystery am I
A modern woman trapped in an old time
Go forward, beautiful ladies, and create
new worlds of artistry and beauty
out of the sands of time
”
”
Ramon William Ravenswood (Icons Speak)
“
Ramon Ramon is a riot. Totally paranoid, gangsta detective. Been reading it with my girlfriend on study breaks and it always gives us a good laugh. Not usually into fiction, but i've been giving this a shot as recommended. With all the heaviness this is relief in its lightness. Go get em Ramon.
”
”
Thomas Dekooning (The Corsican Dove)
“
Dear Natasha,
It's the middle of the night. I can't sleep. Thoughts are creeping through my head like darkness slips around the bodies of sky scrapers in every city we've ever been to. From the bottom up, suffocating the life on the street first and then raising to the head and the brain, circling into smog and clouds until the black stretches up so high that nobody can even remember what the stars used to look like.
This is how I feel when I lie awake and think of you. I miss you.
”
”
Melodie Ramone (Burning Down Rome)
“
The Idea of Order at Key West
She sang beyond the genius of the sea.
The water never formed to mind or voice,
Like a body wholly body, fluttering
Its empty sleeves; and yet its mimic motion
Made constant cry, caused constantly a cry,
That was not ours although we understood,
Inhuman, of the veritable ocean.
The sea was not a mask. No more was she.
The song and water were not medleyed sound
Even if what she sang was what she heard,
Since what she sang was uttered word by word.
It may be that in all her phrases stirred
The grinding water and the gasping wind;
But it was she and not the sea we heard.
For she was the maker of the song she sang.
The ever-hooded, tragic-gestured sea
Was merely a place by which she walked to sing.
Whose spirit is this? we said, because we knew
It was the spirit that we sought and knew
That we should ask this often as she sang.
If it was only the dark voice of the sea
That rose, or even colored by many waves;
If it was only the outer voice of sky
And cloud, of the sunken coral water-walled,
However clear, it would have been deep air,
The heaving speech of air, a summer sound
Repeated in a summer without end
And sound alone. But it was more than that,
More even than her voice, and ours, among
The meaningless plungings of water and the wind,
Theatrical distances, bronze shadows heaped
On high horizons, mountainous atmospheres
Of sky and sea.
It was her voice that made
The sky acutest at its vanishing.
She measured to the hour its solitude.
She was the single artificer of the world
In which she sang. And when she sang, the sea,
Whatever self it had, became the self
That was her song, for she was the maker. Then we,
As we beheld her striding there alone,
Knew that there never was a world for her
Except the one she sang and, singing, made.
Ramon Fernandez, tell me, if you know,
Why, when the singing ended and we turned
Toward the town, tell why the glassy lights,
The lights in the fishing boats at anchor there,
As the night descended, tilting in the air,
Mastered the night and portioned out the sea,
Fixing emblazoned zones and fiery poles,
Arranging, deepening, enchanting night.
Oh! Blessed rage for order, pale Ramon,
The maker's rage to order words of the sea,
Words of the fragrant portals, dimly-starred,
And of ourselves and of our origins,
In ghostlier demarcations, keener sounds
”
”
Wallace Stevens
“
DEE DEE RAMONE: Sid Vicious followed me all over the place...the worst time was one night when we had a big party...They were serving beer and wine, and everybody was bombed. The whole bathroom was filled with puke -- in the sink, in the toilets, on the floor. It was really disgusting...All of a sudden I had a huge amount of speed in my hand. I started sniffing it like crazy. I was so high. And then I saw Sid and he said, 'Do you have anything to get high?' I said, 'Yeah, I got some speed'. So Sid pulled out a set of works and put a whole bunch of speed in the syringe and then stuck the needle in the toilet with all the puke and piss in there and loaded it. He didn't cook it up. He just shook it, stuck it in his arm, and got off. I just looked at him. I'd seen it all by then. He just looked at me kind of dazed and said, 'Man, where did you get this stuff?'.
”
”
Legs McNeil (Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk)
“
An essential difference between British and American punk bands can be found in their respective views of rock & roll history. The British bands took a deliberately anti-intellectual stance, refuting any awareness of, or influence from, previous exponents of the form. The New York and Cleveland bands saw themselves as self-consciously drawing on and extending an existing tradition in American rock & roll.
(...)
A second difference between the British and American punk scenes was their relative gestation periods. The British weekly music press was reviewing Sex Pistols shows less than three months after their cacophonous debut. Within a year of the Pistols' first performance they had a record deal, with the 'major' label EMI. Within six months of their first gigs the Damned and the Clash also secured contracts, the latter with CBS. The CBGBs scene went largely ignored by the American music industry until 1976 -- two years after the debuts of Television, the Ramones and Blondie. Even then only Television signed to an established label.
”
”
Clinton Heylin (From the Velvets to the Voidoids: A Pre-Punk History for a Post-Punk World)
“
The house smelled like fireplace kindling, and hot water in old brass pipes - like metal melting into wood and becoming something all its own. It smelled like his childhood. Like chaos and terror and oatmeal cookies and lamb stew, and nighttime in front of that drafty front window. And the smell of it brought back thoughts, long past, about escaping from inside the walls and evoked the helplessness of every board that kept the place upright.
”
”
Melodie Ramone (Lights of Polaris)
“
The thing about insanity is that when you’re around it long enough you become part of it.
”
”
Marky Ramone (Punk Rock Blitzkrieg: My Life as a Ramone)
“
For he had acquired a lore in his youth which taught him ever to avoid the aged when merry plans were afoot; for the aged would come with their wisdom and slowness of thought, and other plans would be made, and there would be, at least, delay.
”
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Lord Dunsany (The Charwoman's Shadow)
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Easter blessings
All life’s sacrifices like autumn leaves
awaken our senses
and power to love and be whole
Our Mother Earth, Our Father Sky
embraces our happiness and laughter
Praise be to freedom and life’s seasons
Praise be to Christ’s freedom song
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Ramon William Ravenswood (Twilight Zone Encounters)
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You see death is a tool to degrade and destroy people, I see it as a life lesson that I use to empower myself and I remind myself that the dead are still alive. However, only the ones who are good, not evil pieces of shit like you will enjoy peace of mind
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Angel Ramon Medina (Revenge of the Gloobas (The Thousand Years War #3))
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Words fail.... As a grudging admission, after much denial, that even as we try to preserve and create, through, with, in language, whatever is beautiful or scandalous in our lives, language fails because it falsifies. Like money, it corrupts the very possibilities it creates. Words after all the first currency. ... In trying to say what we mean, we end up saying something else. ... And yet, we have nothing else but words.
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Ramon C. Sunico (Bruise: A 2-tongue job)
“
So begins their pursuit
of beauty: leaves tumble
into barrels of water and lye,
the green tears of plants
steamed to the clarity of human tears.
Then, the same women take up
Their pestles and pound the landscape
Into pulp. Mashing daylight and daydreams
into a pale cold mass.
Only then will the men come to drown
their fruits in water, dispersing
the remnants of plants and the aches
of tired white arms.
And having dispersed them, they redeem
with their fine-meshed nets the tissue
of emptiness we now call paper.
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Ramon C. Sunico (Bruise: A 2-tongue job)
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There was a collective hope at the service that the children were in heaven. Riding ponies, playing bingo, exploring the sea. But I don’t think heaven is so much like earth. If heaven exists, I hope it is far beyond what we conjure with our gravity-soaked imaginations. To my mind, it is OK if there is no heaven. It is miraculous enough that Sam and Ramone lived. They were here, on earth, as themselves. The spontaneous eruption of an individual consciousness out of nothingness. I know this is too easy for me to say—I have one child healing, and the other murmuring self-soothing songs on the back of a blue bike. It is too easy. But still, it’s what I hold against my chest. They died, but, before that, they lived.
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Heather Harpham (Happiness: The Crooked Little Road to Semi-Ever After)
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Every second, every minute, every hour
our bodies breathe in the manna of Heaven.
Our bodies resonate with the love and power
of creative cosmic rhythms
dancing through every cell in our beautiful beingness.
Heaven is the heart of our atomic structure.
Only with realisation of God manna within
can the external cosmic energy fuse
and ignite eternal bliss.
Manna from Heaven.
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Ramon William Ravenswood (Twilight Zone Encounters)
“
If the early English and LA punk bands shared a common sound, the New York bands just shared the same clubs. As such, while the English scene never became known as the '100 Club' sound, CBGBs was the solitary common component in the New York bands' development, transcended once they had outgrown the need to play the club. Even their supposed musical heritage was not exactly common -- the Ramones preferring the Dolls/Stooges to Television's Velvets/Coltrane to Blondie's Stones/Brit-Rock. Though the scene had been built up as a single movement, when commercial implications began to sink in, the differences that separated the bands became far more important than the similarities which had previously bound them together.
In the two years following the summer 1975 festival, CBGBs had become something of an ideological battleground, if not between the bands then between their critical proponents. The divisions between a dozen bands, all playing the same club, all suffering the same hardships, all sharing the same love of certain central bands in the history of rock & roll, should not have been that great. But the small scene very quickly partitioned into art-rockers and exponents of a pure let's-rock aesthetic.
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Clinton Heylin (From the Velvets to the Voidoids: A Pre-Punk History for a Post-Punk World)
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I’m taking her to The Horny Goat, Agent St. James, not charging into battle. You and the rest of security are welcome to accompany us. We’ll have a few drinks—or a few dozen—sing some songs and all will be well.”
“Oh, that sounds like so much fun!” Ellie claps her hands. And she turns those heartbreaking eyes on me. “Can we go? Please?”
A simmering amusement rises in Prince Henry’s expression as they wait for my answer. Because he’s also a shit-stirrer. It’s what he does—what he lives for: stirring up all the shit, then sitting back and watching everyone slip in it.
“Come on, Logan,” Ellie whines pleadingly.
Henry loops his arm around her shoulders with a taunting grin. “Yeah, come on, Logan.”
Bastard.
Two hours later, Ellie Hammond, the younger sister of the new Duchess of Fairstone, and the future King of Wessco are on a karaoke stage at The Horny Goat pub. Together. Bouncing around and singing “I Wanna Be Sedated” by the Ramones.
There goes the fucking kingdom.
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Emma Chase (Royally Endowed (Royally, #3))