January 2012
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December 2011
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The truly creative mind in any field is no more than this:
A human...
– Pearl S. Buck
March 2011
2 posts
February 2011
2 posts
The arts are not a way of making a living. They are a very human way of making...
– Kurt Vonnegut, A Man Without a Country, 2005 (via happythings.)
December 2010
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November 2010
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October 2010
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September 2010
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August 2010
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July 2010
2 posts
Demons
hitrecordjoe:
I used to think the phrase “exorcise your demons” was “exercise your demons.” Like, every once in awhile you just need to take them out for a little stroll in the park.
— zucherman
April 2010
3 posts
On Shyness →
hitrecordjoe:
themadeshop:
I was also a shy child. Apparently my mother commented on this to her own mother and my grandmother said “I think Marke enjoys his own company.”
Which was true — I found myself fascinating and other people less so. I had (and still have) long and elaborate and surprisingly literal conversations and even arguments with myself on a wide variety of topics both...
January 2010
0 posts
May your coming year be filled with magic and dreams and good madness. I hope...
– Neil Gaiman
October 2009
2 posts
gamblers all
hitrecordjoe:
bethanyjohnson:annietron:
(Chuck Bukowski)
sometimes you climb out of bed in the morning and you think, I’m not going to make it, but you laugh inside remembering all the times you’ve felt that way, and you walk to the bathroom , do your toilet, see that face in the mirror, oh my oh my oh my, but you comb your hair anyway, get into your street clothes, feed the cats, fetch...
Pain is inevitable. Suffering is a choice.
– Buddhist proverb.
June 2009
2 posts
Life is ‘one blow after another and even when you’re on the ground,...
– Marisha Pessl “Special Topics In Calamity Physics”
April 2009
1 post
March 2009
1 post
Any idiot can face a crisis - it’s day-to-day living that wears you out.
– Anton Chekhov