Sometimes girls go gay when drunk. Sometimes gays go girl when drunk. – Clayton Cubitt Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please. – Mark Twain, via (Dave T)
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defeated
Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent. – Unknown (via Paul Long)
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intangibles
be remarkable
Better to be ridiculous and make an impact, than to be polite and unremarkable. – me
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life worth living
assurance and inexpressible delight
Let the philosophers rave on about the summum bonum and mystics about embracing God. They are still vertical humans and therefore even their adorations still have something aggressive about them. Humans in the horizontal position have always struck me as less likely to be violent and destructive. So I take Continue Reading
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Curiosity
I have no special talents, I am only passionately curious. – Albert Einstein, (via Holly)
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Change
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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Mysterious Ways
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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smile
I like her because she smiles at me and means it. – Anonymous
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Beautiful and Strange
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…
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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half in love
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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enjoy
There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval. – George Santayana
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Confidence
Confidence is 10% hard work and 90% delusion. — Tina Fey
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Dare
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 Continue Reading
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Tick Tock
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 Continue Reading
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This is it
…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. – Continue Reading
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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 Continue Reading
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Avedon Quote
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 Continue Reading
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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 Continue Reading
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Printers
I think salespeople are the last humans on earth who still email people Word files as a default method of communication. As if putting the text in the body of the email, so that I didn’t have to launch a huge, slow, ugly, expensive program just to read it, would Continue Reading