Write to please just one person. If you open a window and make love to the world, so to speak, your story will get pneumonia. — Kurt Vonnegut
Either I am loathsome to others, I have decided, or else I shall be a beacon of rich warm light, spreading good and plenty, making things prosper, being a cosmic architect, conquering the world and being respected, myself grinning surreptitiously. Either that, Sirs, or I shall be the most loathsome, useless, and parasitical (on myself) creature in the world. I shall be a denizen of the Underground, or a successful man of the world. There shall be no compromise!!! I mean it. — Jack Kerouac (via brainpickings)
A ‘Modern’ Wedding. On Tuesday, Jesse Tyler Ferguson and Eric Stonestreet posted this photo just as the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that Proposition 8 was unconstitutional. [huffpo]
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maples and bananaes
We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time. — T. S. Eliot
Your 20’s are your ‘selfish’ years. It’s a decade to immerse yourself in every single thing possible. Be selfish with your time, and all the aspects of you. Tinker with shit, travel, explore, love a lot, love a little, and never touch the ground. —
Kyoko Escamilla (a.k.a Brain-Food) (via elizabeth517)
Damn. Leave it to a good ol’ Tumblr quote to remind me I need to make my life a wild adventure.
(Source: doryyohh, via 472239364)
to be continued
essential life rule: leave the country at least once a year
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Creativity isn’t magic. It starts out simply enough — you’re copying and then you’re fiddling with whatever you’ve copied, and then you’re merging whatever you copied with something else. It’s only over time, with years of practice, that you start to get results that are breakthrough. — Kirby Ferguson, creator of “Everything is a Remix,” quoted in a CNN piece on DJ Spooky (Kirby and I are hosting a panel at SXSW this March)
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