Speak to me as to thy thinkings, _x000D_ _x000D_ As thou dost ruminate, and give thy worst of thoughts _x000D_ _x000D_ The worst of words.
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Speak to me as to thy thinkings, _x000D_ _x000D_ As thou dost ruminate, and give thy worst of thoughts _x000D_ _x000D_ The worst of words.
The gaudy, blabbing, and remorseful day Is crept into the bosom of the sea.
Oh, that way madness lies; let me shun that.
When griping grief the heart doth wound, and doleful dumps the mind opresses, then music, with her silver sound, with speedy help doth lend redress.
I shall despair. There is no creature loves me;_x000D_ _x000D_ And if I die no soul will pity me:_x000D_ _x000D_ And wherefore should they, since that I myself_x000D_ _x000D_ Find in myself no pity to myself?
I, thus neglecting worldly ends, all dedicated _x000D_ _x000D_ To closeness and the bettering of my mind.
If this were played upon a stage now, I could condemn it as an improbable fiction.
Now would I give a thousand furlongs of sea for an acre of barren ground.
Be great in act, as you have been in thought.
Is this a dagger which I see before me, _x000D_ _x000D_ The handle toward my hand? Come, let me clutch thee. _x000D_ _x000D_ I have thee not, and yet I see thee still. _x000D_ _x000D_ Art thou not, fatal vision, sensible _x000D_ _x000D_ To feeling as to sight? or art thou but _x000D_ _x000D_ A dagger of the mind, a false creation, _x000D_ _x000D_ Proceeding from the heat-oppressed brain?
Their understanding_x000D_ _x000D_ Begins to swell and the approaching tide_x000D_ _x000D_ Will shortly fill the reasonable shores_x000D_ _x000D_ That now lie foul and muddy.
What seest thou else_x000D_ _x000D_ In the dark backward and abysm of time?
The law hath not been dead, though it hath slept.
Small to greater matters must give way.
I will make a Star-chamber matter of it.
Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale_x000D_ _x000D_ Her infinite variety.
I will be correspondent to command, And do my spiriting gently.
But you can't always tell - with somebody's mother, I mean. Mothers are all slightly insane.
What I think is, you're supposed to leave somebody alone if he's at least being interesting and he's getting all excited about something. I like it when somebody gets excited about something. It's nice.
Stand-up is the place where you can do things that you could never do in public. Once you step on stage you're licensed to do that. It's an understood relationship. You walk on stage - it's your job.
I fairly often have thought how lucky I was. I knew everybody because I was married to Bogie, and that 25-year difference was the most fantastic thing for me to have in my life.
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