December 2011
130 posts
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“I just do art because I’m ugly and there’s nothing else for me to do.”
– Andy Warhol
“Is there some principal of nature which states that we never know the quality of...”
– Herman Melville
“I drank coffee and read old books and waited for the year to end.”
– Richard Brautigan, Trout Fishing in America
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I don’t think it would be totally outlandish to take a moment and forgive myself, right now, for who I am, and what I’ve done. I’m sorry. Beyond that are grudges and a desire for hatred. If all the people I have wronged—either by my actions, or simply by my existence— choose not to accept that I am trying, or hold onto their hatred,then I do not begrudge them for the...
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The vastness weighs heavy tonight—and to think, not an ounce of boose in my system! How do we feel so old, so young? Certainly, it couldn’t just be me? Is it just the music-the way it makes me sway in the darkness- that makes this life of mine so stunningly abstract and surreal? A whole life lived apart from yourself, what a thought; as though I had spent all these years watching...
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“Oh, Kenneth, Kenneth, believe me- there’s nothing I’d rather do! I...”
– Christopher Isherwood, A Single Man
“Right now, I kind of look like an attractive cosmopolitan who has everything in...”
– Sheldon Costa’s self-aggrandizing Facebook statuses of 2009.
“If personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures, then there was...”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald (via slekes)
Why write,
when you can drink?
