aimee mann, bill evans, avett brothers, breeders, clem snide, tom waits, lester young, basie, ellington, billie holiday, leonard cohen, nick drake, nina simone, stephane grappelli, velvet underground,​ yo la tengo, raveonettes,​ blossom dearie, angela mccluskey, death cab for cutie, kate rusby, mcgarrigle sisters, rickie lee jones...

amelie, heartlands, somersault, annie hall, manhattan, the girl in the cafe, under the skin, venus, stalker, harold and maude, lilya 4-ever

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e.b. white, salinger, robert graves, w.b. yeats, steinbeck, roald dahl, maeve brennan, dylan thomas, william maxwell, anna akhmatova, gabriel garcia marquez, flannery o'connor...

Lt. Cmdr. Charles E. Madison:  "I don't want to know what's good, or bad, or true. I let God worry about the truth. I just want to know the momentary fact about things. Life isn't good, or bad, or true. It's merely factual, it's sensual, it's alive. My idea of living sensual facts are you, a home, a country, a world, a universe. In that order. I want to know what I am, not what I should be."  from "The Americanizat​ion Of Emily" by Paddy Chayevsky

"...con​sider this:
That, in the course of justice, none of us
Should see salvation. We do pray for mercy,
And that same prayer doth teach us all to render
The deeds of mercy."​ -- Shakespeare

"Abraha​m Maslow said the fully realized man does not identify with the local group. When I saw that, it rang another bell. I thought: bingo! I do not identify with the local group, I do not feel a part of it. I really have never felt like a participant,​ I’ve always felt like an observer. Always. I only identified this in retrospect, way after the fact, that I have been on the outside, and I don’t like being on the inside. I don’t like being in their world. I’ve never felt comfortable there; I don’t belong to that. So, when he says the “local group,” I take that as meaning a lot of things: the local social clubs or fraternal orders, or lodges or associations​ or clubs of any kind, things where you sacrifice your individual identity for the sake of a group, for the sake of the group mind. I’ve always felt different and outside. Now, I also extended that, once again in retrospect, as I examined my feelings. I don’t really identify with America, I don’t really feel like an American or part of the American experience, and I don’t really feel like a member of the human race, to tell you the truth. I know I am, but I really don’t. All the definitions are there, but I don’t really feel a part of it. I think I have found a detached point of view, an ideal emotional detachment from the American experience and culture and the human experience and culture and human choices."​ -- George Carlin

"I'm not going to change the way I look or the way I feel to conform to anything. I've always been a freak. So I've been a freak all my life and I have to live with that, you know. I'm one of those people."​ John Lennon

"...and​ I shambled after as I've been doing all my life after people who interest me, because the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes 'Awwww!'..."​ -- Jack Kerouac

At a formal dinner party, the person nearest death should always be seated closest to the bathroom.  -- George Carlin