Robert Seth Vorisek:
CLASS OF 1975
Paramus High SchoolClass of 1975
Paramus, NJ
Rutgers University Class of 1979
New brunswick, NJ
Stony Lane Elementary SchoolClass of 1969
Paramus, NJ
Robert Seth's Story
Robert is from Paramus, New Jersey. Robert's schools include Stony Lane Elemewntary School, Westbrook Junior High School, Paramus High School. Robert later attended Rutgers University - College Avenue Campus (Physical Anthropology Major, English Literature Minor, Minor in Music) .
Robert's interests include Animals, Architecture, Art. Music Robert likes includes Philip Glass, Bach, Beethoven, Brahms. Books Robert likes include Firestarter, To the Lighthouse, Me Talk Pretty Someday. Movies Robert likes include The Terminator, Pretty in Pink, The Wiz. TV shows Robert likes include American Horror Story on FX, The Simpsons, My Life on the D List.
Robert's favorite quotes are:
"...On a sheep-cropped knoll under a clump of elms we ate the strawberries and drank the wine -- as Sebastian had promised, they were delicious together -- and we lit fat, Turkish cigarettes and lay on our back, Sebastian's eyes on the leaves above him, mine on his profile, while the blue-grey smoke rose, untroubled by any wind, to the blue-green shadows of foliage, and the sweet scent of the tobacco merged with the sweet summer scents around us and the fumes of the sweet, golden wine seemed to lift us a finger's breadth above the turf and hold us suspended."'Just the place to bury a crock of golf,' said Sebastian. 'I should like to bury something precious in every place where I've been happy and then, when I was old and ugly and miserable, I could come back and dig it up and remember.'" --Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited, 1944
"Love requires Sharing.Sharing requires Struggle.Struggle requires Faith.Faith requires Love." --stitched onto Paul Burke's AIDS panel, NYC/Philadelphia, 1980's
"I swear -- by my life and my love of it -- that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine." -- Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged, 1957
"All men dream but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake up in the day to find it was vanity, but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dreams with open eyes, to make it possible." -- T.E. Lawrence (Seven Pillars of Wisdom: A Triumph)
"As gay young people, we are marginalized. As young people who are HIV positive and have AIDS, we are totally written off." --Pedro Zamora, 2/29/72 - 11/11/94
"A friend is one that knows you as you are, understands where you have been, accepts what you have become, and still, gently allows you to grow." -- William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice
"Towards thee I roll, thou all-destroying but unconquering whale; to the last I grapple with thee; from hell's heart I stab at thee; for hate's sake I spit my last breath at thee." -- Herman Melville, Moby Dick, 1851
"The world began without the human race and will certainly end without it." -- Claude LÃÂévi-Strauss, 1955
"Bell crickets may cry until they can cry no more but not so for me,for all through the endless night my tars will fall on and on." -- Murasaki Shikibu, "The Tale of Genji"
"And death shall have no dominion.Dead men naked they shall be oneWith the man in the wind and the west moon;When their bones are picked clean and the clean bones gone,They shall have stars at elbow and foot;Though they go mad they shall be sane,Though they sink through the sea they shall rise again;Though lovers be lost love shall not;And death shall have no dominion. And death shall have no dominion.Under the windings of the seaThey lying long shall not die windily;Twisting on racks when sinews give way,Strapped to a wheel, yet they shall not break;Faith in their hands shall snap in two,And the unicorn evils run them through;Split all ends up they shan't crack;And death shall have no dominion. And death shall have no dominion.No more may gulls cry at their earsOr waves break loud on the seashores;Where blew a flower may a flower no moreLift its head to the blows of the rain;Through they be mad and dead as nails,Heads of the characters hammer through daisies;Break in the sun till the sun breaks down,And death shall have no dominion." -- Dylan Thomas, 1936
"There is a moment just beforea dog vomits when its stomachheaves dry, pumping what's deepinside the belly to the mouth.If you are fast you can grabher by the collar and shove herout the door, avoid the slimy bile,hunks of half chewed foodfrom landing on the floor.You must be quick, decisive,controlled, and if ...Expand for more
you missthe cue and the dog erupts en route, you must forgive her quickly and give yourselfto scrubbing up the mess.Most of what I have learned in life leads back to this." -- "The Meaning of Life" by Nancy Fitzgerald, Poetry Harbor, 2001
"You've got to climb Mt. Everestto reach the valley of the dolls." --Jacqueline Susann, 1966
"Our revels now are ended. These our actors,As I foretold you, were all spirits, andAre melted into air, into thin air:And like the baseless fabric of this vision,The cloud-capp'd tow'rs, the gorgeous palaces,The solemn temples, the great globe itself,Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve,And, like this insubstantial pageant faded,Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuffAs dreams are made on; and our little lifeIs rounded with a sleep." --William Shakespeare, The Tempest, Act 4, scene 1, 148-158
"All things are connected. Whatever befalls the earth, befalls the sons of the earth. Man did not weave the web of life; he is merely a strand in it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself."
--Chief Seahl, 1786 - 1866 (Anglicized pronunciation of the Duwamish in the Lushootseed dialect. Also called Chief Sealth, Chief Seattle)
"I'm tired of hearing it said that democracy doesn't work. Of course it doesn't work. We are supposed to work it." -- Alexander Woollcott (1887-1943)
"How boundless the cleared sky of Samadhi!How transparent the perfect moonlight of the Fourfold Wisdom!At this moment what more need we seek?As the Truth eternally reveals itself,This very place is the Lotus Land of Purity,This very body is the Body of the Buddha." -- Song of Meditation, Hakuin Ekaku Zenji
"Oh, I have slipped the surly bonds of EarthAnd danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings;Sunward I've climbed - and joined the tumbling mirthOf sun-split cloud - and done a hundred thingsYou have not dreamed of - wheeled and soared and swungHigh in the sunlit silence. Hov'ring there,I've chased the shouted wind along and flungMy Eager craft through footless halls of air.Up, up, and the long, delirious burning blueI've topped the wind-swept heights with easy graceWhere never lark or even eagle flew -And, while with silent lifted mind I've trodThe high untresspassed sanctity of space,Put out my hand and touched the face of God." -- Pilot Officer John Gillespie Magee, 1941
"The untold want, by life and land ne'er granted,Now, Voyager sail thou for, to seek and find." -- Walt Whitman, Leaves Of Grass, 1900
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, 2009
"'Tis ye, 'tis your estrang'd faces,That miss the many-splendored thing." -- Francis Thompson, 1859 - 1907
"We are now in the mountains and they are in us, kindling enthusiasm, making every nerve quiver, filling every pore and cell of us. Our flesh-and-bone tabernacle seems transparent as glass to the beauty about us, as if truly an inseparable part of it, thrilling with the air and trees, streams and rocks, in the waves of the sun, - a part of all nature, neither old nor young, sick nor well, but immortal." -- John Muir, My First Summer in the Sierra, 1911
Exit, pursued by a bear. --stage direction, "The Winter's Tale," William Shakespeare, 1611
"...whenever we see the dawn of an eternal good . . . whenever we see this dawn, the blood of old people and children is always shed . . . Human history is not the battle of good struggling to overcome evil. It is a battle fought by a great evil struggling to crush a small kernel of human kindness." -- Vasily Grossman, Life and Fate, 1959
"All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way." -- Tolstoy, Anna Karenina, 1877
"Gort, Klaatu barada nikto!" -- Patricia Neal, "The Day The Earth Stood Still", 1951".
More about Robert:
"Ex-New Yorker now living in Seattle and am a writer waiting for a break.
Look me square in the eye and you'll see all you EVER need to know. I do not lie. Can't: my face blushes like a teen girl caught with her hand in the cookie-jar!
I have a dog and a cat, and they get long as well as you'd think a dog and a cat get along (HINT: they both think they're 2-year-old puppies). I have AIDS and am in pretty good health, having it now for 32 years, since 1979, 6'0", 175 lbs.".
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