How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single minute before starting to improve the world.
– Anne Frank, (via Holly)
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The ways of God and government and girls are all mysterious, and it is not given to mortal man to understand them.
Robert Heinlein
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I like her because she smiles at me and means it.
– Anonymous
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Thought I shared this a while ago, but it came up again in reading today:
There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.
– Francis Bacon
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We are here to ruin ourselves and to break our hearts and love the wrong people and die. The storybooks are bullshit. Now I want you to come upstairs with me and get in my bed!
— Nicolas Cage to Cher in Moonstruck
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I was about half in love with her by the time we sat down. That’s the thing about girls. Every time they do something pretty… you fall half in love with them, and then you never know where the hell you are.
J. D. Salinger
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There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
– George Santayana
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Confidence is 10% hard work and 90% delusion.
— Tina Fey
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One reason a dog can be such a comfort when you’re feeling blue is that he doesn’t try to find out why.
– Author Unknown
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Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure… than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.
– Theodore Roosevelt
You may see me only as a drunken, vice-ridden gnome whose friends are just pimps and girls from the brothels. But I know about art and love, if only because I long for it with every fiber of my being.
– Toulouse-Lautrec, Moulin Rouge
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Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything — all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure – these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart. Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life.
– Steve Jobs, Stanford Commencement Speech, 2005
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Whenever anyone asks me how I got the photographs I did, why I was often the only photographer present or got such unique access I reply simply, ‘Trust’.
– Jim Marshall
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…there isn’t going to be any turning point…there isn’t going to be any next-month-it’ll-be-better, next fucking year, next fucking life. You don’t have any time to wait for. You just got to look around you and say, So this is it. This is really all there is to it.
– Janis Joplin
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Finding oneself was a misnomer; a self is not found but made.
– Jacques Barzun
Photography is the embalmers craft. When I photograph something my camera kills it, and I must gently and with love restore it with the life I witnessed with my own eyes, so that others can see what I saw. To do less would be merely to exhibit a corpse.
– Clayton Cubitt
The greatest challenge to any thinker is stating the problem in a way that will allow a solution.
– Bertrand Russell
I always thought of photography as a naughty thing to do – that was one of my favorite things about it, and when I first did it, I felt very perverse.
– Diane Arbus
Mamihlapinatapai: a look shared by two people with each wishing that the other will initiate something that both desire but which neither one wants to start.
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Finally went to the Avedon exhibit this weekend. Watching a video they had playing, he had an interesting quote. He said that every photograph is accurate, and that no photograph is the truth.
I’m sure even he would define photograph — in this instance — as the image as originally taken, since apparently early in his career he was not afraid to touch up his photos to improve their idealism.
I’ve heard friends describe my photos of people as “very honest portraits”, with the implied message that they’re not necessarily flattering. While I won’t share pictures I think are insulting, I think it’s good to keep in mind that any photo is simply capturing one particular point of view of one specific moment.
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“If we listened to our intellect, we’d never have a love affair. We’d never have a friendship. We’d never go into business, because we’d be cynical. Well, that’s nonsense. You’ve got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down.”
–Ray Bradbury
“Anybody can look at a pretty girl and see a pretty girl. An artist can look at a pretty girl and see the old woman she will become. A better artist can look at an old woman and see the pretty girl that she used to be. But a great artist – a master – and that is what Auguste Rodin was – can look at an old woman, portray her exactly as she is… and force the viewer to see the pretty girl she used to be… and more than that, he can make anyone with the sensitivity of an armadillo, or even you, see that this lovely young girl is still alive, not old and ugly at all, but simply imprisoned inside her ruined body. He can make you feel the quiet, endless tragedy that there was never a girl born who ever grew older than eighteen in her heart… no matter what the merciless hours have done to her.”
–Robert A. Heinlein
“Live forever, or die in the attempt.”
–Joseph Heller
“To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.”
– Jorge Luis Borges
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…the larger the mob, the harder the test. In small areas, before small electorates, the first-rate man occasionally fights his way through, carrying even the mob with him by force of his personality. But when the field is nationwide…the force of personality cannot so readily make itself felt, then all the odds are on the man who is, intrinsically, the most devious and mediocre… The presidency tends, year by year, to go to such men. As democracy is perfected, the office represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people… On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart’s desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a moron.
– H.L. Mencken, writing in The Baltimore Evening Sun, July 26, 1920
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Excellent overheard quote:
It’s better to be hated for who you are, than to be loved for who you pretend to be.
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“A monster is a creature with no consciousness.”
–God
Since corporations are legally considered “people”, and they have no consciousness, then what does that say about them?
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pakgwei: “do you feel like an adult?”
sunfl0wersara: “not really. i feel like a fraud, most of the time.”
What about you?
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