February 2012
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“We’re all puppets, Laurie. I’m just a puppet who can see the strings.”
– Doctor Manhattan, Watchman #9
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“Daydreaming with pencil and paper is a respectable form of meditation.”
– John Howe
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“Sexually progressive cultures gave us mathematics, literature, philosophy,...”
– Alan Moore
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January 2012
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The Peasant Mentality
“It’s classic peasant mentality: going into fits of groveling and bowing whenever the master’s carriage rides by, then fuming against the Turks in Crimea or the Jews in the Pale or whoever after spending fifteen hard hours in the fields. You know you’re a peasant when you worship the very people who are right now, this minute, conning you and taking your shit. Whatever the master does,...
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So it’s four o’clock in the morning and I’m about ready to go clean gym equipment and scrub showers. Yup, my first post-college job is performing the ‘janitorial arts’ at LA fitness. Sure others might think I’m a failure and the pay is almost minimum wage, but fuck it, it’s a job. Those aren’t that easy to come by nowadays in case you haven’t...
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“It’s dark because you are trying too hard. Lightly child, lightly. Learn to do...”
– Aldous Huxley
i can’t post/reblog this quote enough <3
(via creativedreadhead)
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“Growing up, I felt that our country’s political and business leaders...”
– NY Times, Anonymous
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I’ve been searching for my own place for almost six months now. Another perfect apartment just fell through, fourth one in a row. I’m pretty sure I’ll end up living in a cave with bears at this rate. Aye Carumba.
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“It is no measure of health,
to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.”
– Jiddu Krishnamurti
Koi No Yokan (Japanese): The sense upon first...
December 2011
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The Old Year: In Retrospect
2011, was a bitter year full of resentment, goodbyes, and burnt bridges. People who I thought of as giants, pillars of strength and support I could depend on for a lifetime, crumbled in the wind. A freak accident took the life of a dear family friend, a younger brother by everything but blood in my eyes. He was barely 19 years old.
The honest lied, the kind were cruel, and the brave were weak...
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“Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall.”
– Oliver Goldsmith
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“Here was a new generation, shouting the old cries, learning the old creeds,...”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald in The Great Gatsby (via rarararambles)
For a book published in 1925, one can’t help but think it could have been published now in the era of #OWS?
(via meganinmadison)
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“I love everything that’s old, - old friends, old times, old manners, old...”
– Oliver Goldsmith
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“Have patience. All things are difficult before they become easy.”
– Saadi
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La Douleur Exquise (French): The heart-wrenching...
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“Sometimes fate is like a small sandstorm that keeps changing directions. You...”
– Haruki Murakami | Kafka on the Shore (via blogut)
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November 2011
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“I’ve missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300...”
– Micheal Jordan
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“It wasn’t my day. My week. My month. My year. My life. God damn it.”
– Charles Bukowski
It's the combination of bitterness and...
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“If you plan on being anything less than you are capable of being, you will...”
– Abraham Maslow