that's hell

I've never found heaven, for example, a particularly interesting place to go. 

In fact, I take the view that God, in his infinite wisdom, 

didn't bother to spring for two joints-heaven and hell. 

They're the same place, 

but heaven is when you get everything you want 

and you meet Mummy and Daddy and your best friends 

and you all have a hug and a kiss and play your harps. 

Hell is the same place-no fire and brimstone-but they just all pass by 

and don't see you. 

There's nothing, no recognition.

 You're waving, "It's me, your father," but you're invisible. 

You're on a cloud, you've got your harp, but you can't play with nobody

 because they don't see you. 

That's hell.

Keith Richards

'Life'

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true friends

True friends. 

Hardest thing to find, 

but you never look for them-they find you; 

just grow into each other.

Keith Richards

'Life'

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song-writing

To write a song that is remembered and taken to heart is a connection, 

a touching of bases. A thread that runs through all of us. 

A stab to the heart. 

Sometimes I think song-writing is about tightening the heartstrings 

as much as possible without bringing on 

a heart attack.

Keith Richards

'Life'

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to love things

How we love to love things for other people; 

how we love to have other people love things 

through our eyes.

John Irving

'The Cider House Rules'

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someone you love

It's natural to want someone you love 

to do what you want, 

or what you think would be good for them, 

but you have to let everything happen to them. 

You can't interfere with people you love any more 

than you're supposed to interfere with 

people you don't even know 

and that's hard. 

John Irving

'The Cider House Rules'

www.interactioninstitute.org

our lives

Our lives are not our own, 

from womb to tomb, 

we're bound to others, past and present. 

And by each crime and every kindness, 

we birth our future.

'Cloud Atlas'

directors: Tom Tykwer, Lana Wachowski, Andy Wachowski

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when you lie

When you lie, 

it makes you feel in charge of your life. (...)

When you lie, you feel 

as if you have cheated fate - your own, 

and everybody else's.

John Irving

'The Cider House Rules'

www.twicsy.com

what love is

Was that what love was, 

and 

how it came to you - leaving you no options 

for its use?

John Irving

'The Cider House Rules'

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real adventure

You know, everybody dies.

My parents died. Your father died. Everybody dies.

I'm going to die too. So will you.

The thing is, to have a life before we die.

It can be a real adventure 

having a life.

John Irving

'The World According to Garp'

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to know & to lose

We don't always have a choice how we get to know one another.

Sometimes, people fall into our lives cleanly --

as if out of the sky, 

or as if there were a direct flight from Heaven to Earth --

the same sudden way we lose people,

who once seemed they would always be 

part of our lives.

John Irving

'Last Night in Twisted River'

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