- i never m...
- you never mean to hurt anybody. but you do, alfie.

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whenever you meet a beautiful woman, just remember somewhere there's a man who's sick of shagging her.

top 5 quotes from fernando pessoa:

1. dizem que finjo ou minto tudo o que escrevo. não. eu simplesmente sinto com a imaginação. não uso o coração.
2. que mal fiz eu aos deuses todos? se têm a verdade, guardem-a!
3. há metafisica bastante em não pensar em nada.
4. arre, estou farto de semideuses! onde é que há gente no mundo? então sou só eu que é vil e errôneo nesta terra?
5. sentir é estar distraído.

top 10 songs i've been singing to myself while day dreaming (ask me why and i'll spit in your eye)

1. girl afraid - smiths (where do his intentions lay? or does he even have any?)

2. like dylan in the movies - belle and sebastian (you're worth the trouble and you're worth the pain, you're worth the worry i would do the same if we all went back to another time i would love you over)

3. the more you ignore me the closer i get - morrissey ( i will be in the bar with my head on the bar. i am now a central part of your mind's landscape whether you care or do not. yeah, i've made up your mind)

4. a letter to elise - the cure (the way the blue could pull me in, if they only would, if they only would)

5. lips like sugar - echo and the bunnymen (sugar kisses just when you think (s)he's yours (s)he's flown to other shores)

6. bizarre love triangle - new order (every time i think of you i get a shot right through with a bolt of blue)

7. pale blue eyes - velvet undergound (linger on, your pale blue eyes. it was good what we did yesterday and i'd do it once again)

8. i don't mind if you forget me - morrissey (the pressure to change, to move on, was strange and very strong. so this is why i tell you, i really do understand. bye bye)

9. glory box - portishead ( through this new frame of mind, a thousand flowers could bloom. just give me a reason to love you)

10. it's no good - depeche mode (i'm going to take my time, i have all the time in the world to make you mine)

bonus track: don't you (forget about me) - simple minds (and love's strange: so real in the dark. think of the tender things we were working on. slow change may pull us apart, when will i have any of your heart, baby?)

extra bonus track: warning sign - coldplay (come on in, i've gotta tell you what a state i'm in. i've gotta tell you in my loudest tones that I started looking for a warning sign when the truth is, i miss you. yeah the truth is, that i miss you so)

 

top 10 songs to support my way of living (ask me why and i'll die)

1. love will tear us apart - joy division (and we're changing our ways, taking different roads)

2. doing the unstuck - cure (you really should know that it's never too late to get up and go)

3. sheila take a bow - smiths (is it wrong to want to live on your own?)

4. disintegration - cure (as bit by bit, starts the need to just let go my party piece)

5. there's a light that never goes out - smiths (take me out tonight because i want to see people and i want to see life)

6. there's too much love - belle and sebastian (i feel like dancing on my own, where no one knows me and where i can cause offense just by the way i look)

7. how soon is now? - smiths (you shut your mouth, how can you say i go about things the wrong way?)

8. tainted love - soft cell (and you think love is to pray, but i'm sorry i don't pray that way)

9. it's the end of the world as we know it - REM (and i feel fine)

10. fitter happier - radiohead (calm, fitter, healthier and more productive: a pig in a cage on antibiotics)

bonus track: parklife - blur ( i get up when i want, except on wednesdays, when i get rudely wakened by the dustmen)

top 5 songs that one might use to attack me (well if i were you i wouldn't bother)

1. alsatian cousin - the smiths (so i ask even though i know: were you and he lovers?)

2. there she goes again - velvet underground (now take a look, there's no tears on her eyes)

3. cheating on you - franz ferdinand (goodbye girl, yes, i'm a loser. goodbye girl, you know it's only love)

4. i'm hated for loving - morrissey (i am hated for loving, i am haunted for wanting... i still don't belong to anyone - i am mine)

5. end - cure (stop loving me, i am none of these things)