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From: Brian
"I chose and my world was shaken,
So what?
The choice may have been mistaken
The choosing was not,
You have to move on."
-Sunday In The Park With George
From: Nicole
"Perpetual anticipation is good for the soul but it's bad for the heart."
-A Little Night Music
From: Amy
"You may know what you need but to get what you want,
Better see that you keep what you had."
-Into The Woods
From: Katy
"How could you do it, Johnny,
Calling it a cause?
You left a legacy
Of butchery
And treason we
Took eagerly,
And thought you'd get applause.
But traitors just get jeers and boos,
Not visits to their graves,
While Lincoln who got mixed reviews,
Because of you, John, now gets only raves."
-Assassins
From: Djuna
It's a rip in the bustle and a rustle in the hay
And I'll pitch the quick fantastic,
With flings of confetti and my petticoats away up high.
It's a very short way
From the fling that's for fun
To the thigh pressing un-
Der the table.
It's a very short day
Till you're stuck with just one
Or it has to be done
On the sly.
In the meanwhile,
There are mouths to be kissed
Before mouths to be fed,
And there's many a tryst
And there's many a bed,
There's a lot I'll have missed
But I'll not have been dead
When I die!
And a person should celebrate everything
Passing by."
-A Little Night Music
From: Stefanie
"Let the moment go....
Don't forget it for a moment, though.
Just remembering you've had an "and" when you're back to "or" makes the "or" mean more than it did before....
Now I understand!
And it's time to leave the woods."
-Into The Woods
From: Aja :)
"How can you know what you want till you get what you want and you see if you like it?"
-Into The Woods
From: Aniko
"I never do anything twice"
-The 7% Solution
From: Christine
"You see what you look for, you know?"
-Company
From: Jeremy R.
"It's not so much do what you like as it is that you like what you do."
-Sunday In The Park With George
"The difference between a cow and a bean is a bean can begin an adventure!"
-Into The Woods
From: Noel Katz
"She sits at the Ritz with her splits of Mumm's
And starts to pine for a stein with her village chums
But with a Schlitz in her mitts down at Fitzroy's bar
She thinks of the Ritz.
Oh, it's so schizo."
-Follies(cut)
From: Amanda
"Witches can be right.
Giants can be good.
You decide what's right.
You decide what's good.
Just remember... someone is on your side.
Someone else is not.
While we're seeing our side, maybe we forgot.
They are not alone.
No one is alone."
-Into The Woods
From: Adair
"The situation's fraught,
Fraughter than I thought,
With horrible, impossible possibilities!"
-Forum
"Best to take the moment present as a present for the moment..."
-Into The Woods
"Am I not sensitive, clever, well-mannered, considerate,
passionate, charming, as kind as i'm handsome and heir to a throne?"
-Into The Woods
From: Betsy K.
"Sunday 'by the blue, purple, yellow, red water.
On the green, purple, yellow, red grass,
Let us pass through our through our perfect park......
...On an ordinary Sunday... Sunday..."
-Sunday In The Park With George
From: Alan Miller
"No one has ever loved me"
-Passion
From: brandonO:)B.
"I do not dwell on dreams
I know how soon a dream becomes an expectation
How can I have expectations?
Look at me,
No, Captain, Look at me,
Look at me!

I do not hope for what I cannot have!
I do not cling to things I cannot keep!

The more you cling to things,
The more you love them,
The more the pain you suffer,
When they're taken from you...

Ah, but if you have no expectations,
You can never have a disappointment."
-Passion

From: Sarah C.
"I don't know how I let you
So far inside my mind.
But there you are and there you will stay
How could I ever wish you away?
I see now I was blind.
And should you die tomorrow,
Another thing I see:
Your love will live in me ... "
-Passion
From: Patrick E.
"You're so nice.
You're not good,
You're not bad,
You're just nice.
I'm not good,
I'm not nice,
I'm just right.
I'm the witch.
You're the world."
-Into The Woods
From: Alberto Mira
"Now you know
Life is crummy
Well, now you know.
O.K. Big surprise
People love you and tell you lies
Bricks can fall out of a clear blue sky
Put your dimple down, now you know!"
-Merrily We Roll Along
From: Evan W.
"Work is what you do for others
Liebchen,
Art is what you do for yourself"
-Sunday In The Park With George
From: Justin P.
"Stop worrying if your vision is new.
Let others make that decision,
They usually do,
You keep moving on.
I chose and my world was shaken,
So what?
The choice may have been mistaken
The choosing was not,
You have to move on ...
Anything you do,
Let it come from you,
Then it will be new.
Give us more to see."
-Sunday In The Park With George
From: Tempboy
"But alone,
Is alone, Not alive"
-Company
"Blow out the candles Bobby and make a wish
WANT something, want SOMEthing"
-Company
From: Richard P.Caldrone
"Charley, nothing's the way that it was
I want it the way that it was
God knows, things were easier then
Trouble is, Charley
That's what everyone does
Blames the way it is
On the way it was
On the way it never ever was"
-Merrily We Roll Along
From: LBC981
"No more giants
waging war
Can't we just pursue our lives
With our children and our wives
Till that happy day arrives
How do you ignore
All the witches
All the curses
All the wolves, all the lies
The false hopes, the goodbyes,
The reverses
All the wondering what even worse is
Still in store?
All the children...
All the giants...
No more."
-Into The Woods
From: Simon Lien
"Wishes may bring problems
Such that you regret them
Better that, though
Then to never get them"
-Into The Woods
From: Richard Page
"How does it happen?
When does it disappear?
How does it start to go?
Does it slip away slow?
So you never even notice it's happening?"
-Merrily We Roll along

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