December 2010
19 posts
“We live our lives, do whatever we do, and then we sleep. It’s as simple and...”
– Michael Cunningham, The Hours (via welovewriters)
“Be reckless enough to gamble all, or nothing to follow your dreams.”
– John Galliano
Respect
is the least we can ask for, and the least we can give.
Off the record →
bobulate:
Chuck Klosterman interviews Jonathan Franzen on an Acela between Philadelphia and Washington, D.C.:
… I allow him to give his answer off the record. During the three minutes my recorder is off, he provides one of the most straightforward, irrefutable, and downright depressing answers I’ve ever experienced in an interview. His posture relaxes. His language simplifies. Nothing is...
“You live for the fight when it’s all that you’ve got.”
– Livin’ On A Prayer, Bon Jovi
Sometimes,
I think thinking so much can get in the way of getting something done. It happens to me all the time…and now I’m wondering how much I might have already achieved if only I had done some things before thinking, especially of things like how difficult they are to do, or how costly, or how…well, how I most probably can’t do them.
Some things require that we think before we...
“The longer I live, the more I realize the impact of attitude on life. Attitude,...”
– Charles R. Swindoll (via soul-surfer)
“Not everyone has a sob story…and even if they do, it’s no excuse.”
– The Perks of Being A Wallflower, Stephen Chbosky
Sometimes,
I wish I didn’t like to write. So then I’d be spared the heartache of wanting to make it as a writer so bad. And further spare myself the heartbreak of failing.
Then again, if that were the case, my life would just be so utterly boring.
So I guess a life of heartache and heartbreak is fine. Sometimes you’ve just got to take the good with the bad. And this kind of bad:
Writing...
“We only need one, but they’re all so pretty!”
– Angela Velasco on dice and, well, everything in a girl’s life (shoes, clothes, make-up, jewelry, accessories…)