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tranquil heart gives life to the flesh, but envy makes the bones rot.”
Looking the way I did, and as poor as we were, how did I not just let life run me over? I’m sorry, I don’t usually use this word, but it’s because fuck that.
You just have to copy the right people, and the rest falls in place.
Real people aren’t as cooperative as the ones in our heads. Overall it made the writing much less fun and inspired.
Get in where I fit in.
The lesson being that desperation is most unflattering.
Everybody loves the reefer man.
She looked like a fucking cockatoo. Is that the one with all the colors? Parakeet, parrot… whatever. Crazy nut.
The beginnings of any new thing are so lovely.
But my personal definition of success is that you don’t do a goddamn thing you don’t want to. If you ain’t feeling it, you ain’t gotta do it.
But life goes on, and I won’t pout through it.”
I regret that the world can be so unkind, so ungenerous. That people still haven’t learned how to love, in 1971 or 2016.
There are a great many regrets, but I suppose they all fall under the same umbrella: failing to act always from a place of integrity and love.
there’s nothing like the first time you take on a thing that scares the shit out of you and discover the intensity turns you all the way on.
Get real—if violence didn’t lead to power, there would be no wars. We’d just be loving each other up. But we don’t do that, do we?
She was a liberated Black American woman, very fascinating, very beautiful, very not-giving-a-fuck.
