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#85653 11/04/02 07:06 PM
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I am looking for some quotes from books(in particular), poetry, people, films or songs as inspiration for a piece of creative writing - any suggestions?
The weirder the better!


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"I had a normal childhood. I hated my father." --Joe Orton

"God is a gentleman. He prefers blondes." --Joe Orton




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I'm not sure it was specifically an inspiration, but there was a not-so-bad movie called "The Pompitous of Love" (crossthreading e)


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Bonzai, the second paragraph seems to fit your description, but I'll put the whole poem as it's so short.


Hauntings

In the grey tumult of these after years
Oft silence falls; the incessant wranglers part;
And less-than-echoes of remembered tears
Hush all the loud confusion of the heart;
And a shade, through the toss'd ranks of mirth and crying
Hungers, and pains, and each dull passionate mood, --
Quite lost, and all but all forgot, undying,
Comes back the ecstasy of your quietude.



So a poor ghost, beside his misty streams,
Is haunted by strange doubts, evasive dreams,
Hints of a pre- Lethean life, of men,
Stars, rocks, and flesh, things unintelligible,
And light on waving grass, he knows not when,
And feet that ran, but where, he cannot tell.

PACIFIC, 1914




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Brill! Thanks all!
I'm sure I'll think of something with the help of these and my hyper-active imagination...



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