'Sometimes
when you no longer see yourself as the hero of your own drama expecting
victory after victory and you understand deeply that this is not
Paradise - we somehow experience - the privileged ones - we somehow
embrace the notion that this vale of tears is perfectible, that you can
get it all straight. I found that things became a lot easier when I no
longer expected to win. You abandon your masterpiecing and you sing it
to the real masterpiece.'
from I'm Your Man, a film by Lian Lunson, 2005
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0478197/
You are behind each miracle, a photo by Daquella manera on Flickr.
from My Week With Marilyn
by Colin Clark 2000
2011 Harper Press, London
p.247
Introduction
'All my life I have kept
diaries, but this is not one of them. This is a fairy story, an
interlude, an episode outside time and space which nevertheless was
real. And why not? I believe in magic. My life and most people's lives
are a series of little miracles - strange coincidences which spring from
uncontrollable impulses and give rise to incomprehensible dreams. We
spend a lot of time pretending that we are normal, but underneath the
surface each one of us knows that he or she is unique.'
_bradley-manning-pride014_, a photo by savemanning on Flickr.
'The great majority of us are required to live a life of constant,
systematic duplicity. Your health is bound to be affected if, day after
day, you say the opposite of what you feel, if you grovel before what
you dislike and rejoice at what brings you nothing but misfortune. Our
nervous system isn’t just a fiction, it’s a part of our physical body
and our soul exists in space and is inside us, like the teeth in our
mouth. It can’t be forever violated with impunity.'
