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coffeo:my goals for the new year:- wear more black- put up with less fuckery

coffeo:

my goals for the new year:

- wear more black

- put up with less fuckery

theglasschild:“Dear world, I am excited to be alive in you, and I am thankful for another year.” —...

theglasschild:

“Dear world, I am excited to be alive in you, and I am thankful for another year.”

— Charlotte Eriksson, He loved me some days. I’m sure he did.

theglasschild:“I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making...

theglasschild:

“I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes, then you are making new things, trying new things, learning, living, pushing yourself, changing yourself, changing your world. You’re doing things you’ve never done before, and more importantly, you’re Doing Something. So that’s my wish for you, and all of us, and my wish for myself. Make New Mistakes. Make glorious, amazing mistakes. Make mistakes nobody’s ever made before. Don’t freeze, don’t stop, don’t worry that it isn’t good enough, or it isn’t perfect, whatever it is: art, or love, or work or family or life. Whatever it is you’re scared of doing, Do it. Make your mistakes, next year and forever.”

— Neil Gaiman

theglasschild:“HopeSmiles from the threshold of the year to come, Whispering ‘it will be...

theglasschild:

“HopeSmiles from the threshold of the year to come, Whispering ‘it will be happier’…”

— Alfred Tennyson

remanence-of-love:

remanence-of-love:

“It is possible to be homesick for a place even when you are there.”― Don DeLillo, White Noise

“It is possible to be homesick for a place even when you are there.”
― Don DeLillo, White Noise

“If you reveal everything, bare every feeling, ask for understanding, you lose something crucial to…

“If you reveal everything, bare every feeling, ask for understanding, you lose something crucial to your sense of yourself. You need to know things that others don’t know. It’s what no one knows about you that allows you to know yourself.”
― Don DeLillo, Point Omega

Appreciate Me For Everything Good I Have Done In The Past

When you die, the world changes
into a funhouse. The funhouse is far away. It collapses
at the speed of light.

I just made that up.

I live in a high-density urban area.

I am hard-working,
detail-oriented, an excellent multi-tasker.
My demeanor in social situations
can be described as ‘low-level panic attack.’
I am honest, tactful, and ironic.
I enjoy screaming. I think it’s funny when people scream.

I think the Nobel Prize is funny.

“I am going to email a shitload of people tonight.” I think that’s funny.

I feel angry. No I don’t. I am bored.
I don’t understand how a number can be negative. One apple
looks like one apple. What does negative-one apple look like?

The world is stupid.

The world I exist in
is really stupid.

I can prove it

at night. In the park, at night,
I can prove anything.

– Tao Lin

“Sometimes I see something so moving I know I’m not supposed to linger. See it and leave. If you…

“Sometimes I see something so moving I know I’m not supposed to linger. See it and leave. If you stay too long, you wear out the wordless shock. Love it and trust it and leave.”
― Don DeLillio, Underworld

“Most artists are brought to their vocation when their own nascent gifts are awakened by the work of…

“Most artists are brought to their vocation when their own nascent gifts are awakened by the work of a master. That is to say, most artists are converted to art by art itself. Finding one’s voice isn’t just an emptying and purifying oneself of the words of others but an adopting and embracing of filiations, communities, and discourses. Inspiration could be called inhaling the memory of an act never experienced. Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of void but out of chaos. Any artist knows these truths, no matter how deeply he or she submerges that knowing.”
― Lewis Hyde, The Gift: Imagination and the Erotic Life of Property