December 2011
38 posts
“I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes.
Because if you are making...”
– http://journal.neilgaiman.com/2011/12/my-new-year-wish.html (via neil-gaiman)
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“There is a happiness I feel whenever I see this band play, that hits me the same...”
– Henry Rollins, LA Weekly 12.29.11 (in reference to Dinosaur Jr)
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“Civilised life, you know, is based on a huge number of illusions in which we all...”
– J.G. Ballard
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“Its hurtful and wonderful how our jokes survive us.
Since I left home on this...”
– Steven Hall, The Raw Shark Texts
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“Hate is a place where a man who can’t stand sadness goes.”
– Kentaro Miura, Berserk
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“From the beauty they deserve will come the love they deserve. And from the love...”
– Alex Shakar, The Savage Girl
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“Understand—it ALWAYS makes sense. Sense can’t be avoided. If it...”
– Richard Foreman, Notes on the Process of Making It: Which Is Also the Object
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“I appear at times merry and in good heart, talk, too, before others quite...”
– Hugo Wolf
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“I am not I.
I am not this one
Walking beside me, whom I do not see,
Whom at...”
– Juan Ramon Jimenez, I Am Not I
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“…but life is full of pain. There are good parts too, of course, but...”
– Henry Rollins, Occupants
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“The other Christmas album — unarguably the best one of them all — is...”
– Henry Rollins, LA Weekly (12.22.11)
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“I don’t deserve a soul, yet I still have one. I know because it hurts.”
– Douglas Coupland, The Gum Thief
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“It is an ironic habit of human beings to run faster when they have lost their...”
– Rollo May
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“There would be little reason to lie down at night without the possibility of...”
– Obert Skye
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“If the best I can do ain’t gonna stop what’s coming,
What’s the point in trying...”
– La Dispute, How I Feel
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“Never can we sit back and wait for miracles to save us. Miracles don’t...”
– Isaac Asimov
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“I am not a fool. I am wise. I will run from my fear, I will outdistance my fear,...”
– Mark Z. Danielewski, House of Leaves
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“We run out of things that make us individual very quickly; all of us have far...”
– Douglas Coupland, Player One: What Is To become of Us?
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“I will reach upward. I will attempt to do better. I will not be a burden upon...”
– Dave Eggers, What Is the What
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“I am the son and the heir
Of a shyness that is criminally vulgar
I am the son...”
– The Smiths, How Soon Is Now?
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“It’s not easy — living in a void, living and dying inside your...”
– Kevin Brooks, Candy
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“Life is bearable even when it’s unbearable: that is what’s so...”
– Geoff Dyer, Out of Sheer Rage
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“That is the heart of it. Now begin in the middle, and later learn the beginning;...”
– Harlan Ellison, “Repent, Harlequin!” Said the Ticktock Man
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“It’s just that none of us had the wit or talent to make them into songs. We made...”
– Nick Hornby, High Fidelity
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“While I’m not claiming that I now feel great love for all people, I can...”
– Andrew Davidson, The Gargoyle
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“A beggar’s mistake harms no one but the beggar. A king’s mistake,...”
– R. Scott Bakker, The Judging Eye
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“I am open to the possibility that everything has metaphorical merit, and I see...”
– Chuck Klosterman, Eating the Dinosaur
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“Don’t want to think too much
It makes me think too much
It keeps my mind...”
– Rollins Band, Disconnect
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“In my kind of falling, there’s no landing. There’s only hitting the...”
– John Green, Will Grayson, Will Grayson
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“A victim of my own curiousness, when I think back, I have wondered how I could...”
– Daniel Amory, Minor Snobs
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“Asking the head I have now to explain its own thinking is as pointless as...”
– Nick Hornby, A Long Way Down
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“So the day became one of waiting, which was, he knew, a sin: moments were to be...”
– Neil Gaiman, Neverwhere
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“Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives...”
– Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
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“Sometimes I imagine myself looking back on right now, and I think, like, where...”
– Jennifer Egan, A Visit From the Goon Squad
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“I wish I could say this was a story about how I got on the bus a boy and got off...”
– Childish Gambino, That Power
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“A dark world aches for a splash of the sun”
– Young the Giant, “Cough Syrup”
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“The nice part about being a pessimist is that you are constantly being either...”
– George Will
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“Today I will do what others won’t, so tomorrow I can accomplish what...”
– Jerry Rice