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no reason
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"just because things don't work out, doesn't mean they won't"
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no reason
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"the most exhausting thing in life is being insincere"
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no reason
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assume you are worth talking to and you will be
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130211
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Risen
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"Loretta, I love you. Not like they told you love is, and I didn't know this either, but love don't make things nice - it ruins everything. It breaks your heart. It makes things a mess. We aren't here to make things perfect. The snowflakes are perfect. The stars are perfect. Not us. Not us! 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."
- Nicholas Cage in Moonstruck
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raze
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"there is no such thing as a failed relationship. we simply learn what and what not to do as we struggle through the tension and iconize the moments that were not anything less than bliss."
pilot
from "unravel"
(a blathe well worth revisiting)
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"love sometimes starts as actions and turns to feelings." lil petey to petey in dogman: for whom the balls roll.
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(though it's probably contextual. in this case lil petey is a clone of petey. petey was hoping he'd also be a villain but lil petty has a heart of gold and a youthful optimism that the world, and his "papa" aka the original petey can be better -- especially if it includes songs about poop. so if petey begins to take care of lil petey then familial love can grow through daily actions and replace petey's impulse to be a villain.)
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220713
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tender_square
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"if you're tired of style, you are tired of life."
-carson ("downton abbey")
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tender_square
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two great ones from susan cain's "bittersweet":
1. "he who has a why to live for can bear almost any how" —nietzsche
2. "very few people grow from success. people grow from failure. they grow from adversity. they grow from pain" — dr. william breitbart
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220715
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tender_square
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“one of the things that i’m really liking about getting older is the idea that i would choose true quality of life – to actually make the things that are important to me my priorities, rather than the work that will one day facilitate me having those things.”
--kathleen_edwards
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220720
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a paraphrase of advice salman_rushdie received from a history teacher:
"don't write until you can hear their voices in your mind.*
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epitome of incomprehensibility
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"Any system was a straitjacket if you insisted on adhering to it so totally and humorlessly. I didn't believe in systems. [...] What *did* I believe in, then? In humor. In laughing at systems, at people, at one's self. In seeing life as contradictory, many-sided, various, funny, tragic, and with moments of outrageous beauty."
- Erica Jong in the character of Isadora, Fear_of_Flying.
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220816
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tender_square
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"be curious, not judgemental" —walt whitman
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220818
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tender_square
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“to win at art is to keep making art every day.” — susie j. silbert
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"the people who leave always forget that the world doesn't end once they're gone." [unsaid_in_context: and those worlds left behind still have value worth preserving] -charlie jane anders
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tender_square
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"[creating] art is a reminder that we do contain multitudes." -george saunders
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tender_square
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"if you're thinking, you're stinking." —neil young on the creative process
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221123
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"take your destiny into your hands and wrestle it into the ground."
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tender_square
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"i would rather give full vent to all human loves and disappointments, and take a chance on being corny, than die a smartass." —jim harrison
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"we need to move beyond good enough."
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"the source of all misery lies in our insistence that tomorrow be like today. but if it were, if it ever were, it would spell the end of everything."
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"everything is interaction and reciprocal" alexander von humboldt
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"stories are factual accounts of the human heart."
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"empathy is an emotional loss leader."
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past
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in contrast to the last entry, but also true:
"you've been way too generous with all the fucks you've been giving."
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230203
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chilli, the mom from bluey, to bandit, the dad who is trying and failing to teach bluey and bingo chess: "work on the heads later, for now, just hearts."
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tender_square
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'never worry about being obsessive. i like obsessive people. obsessive people make great art." —susan sontag
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"there was nothing better in the world than a slightly charred birthday marshmallow."
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raze
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"you can't problem solve unless you have the ability or the empathy to perceive all that's around you."
— andre agassi
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tender_square
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"i've had it with all stingy-hearted sons of bitches. a heart is to be spent."
—stephen dunn
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230502
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"life is about making something humanly valuable out of the mess we live in."
— ray carney
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230503
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"often the people we're closest to are the people we have the hardest time seeing clearly."
— tina ontiveros
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raze
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"sit with animals quietly and they will show you their hearts. sit with them kindly and they will help you locate your own."
— unknown
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230710
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raze
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"comparison is the thief of joy."
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230810
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"writers write. you don't choose to do it; writing, as a form of breathing, has by some alchemical process chosen you."
— greil marcus
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"people who realize their creative potential are constantly bridging the gap between the inner and outer [world]. they invest the external world with meaning because they disown neither the world's objectivity nor their own subjectivity."
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tender_square
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"in our novels, it is music, among all the arts, that isolates the individual from the society of his contemporaries, makes him aware of his separateness and, finally, provides a personal significance to his life regardless of his social or even personal loyalties. it is the one measure of survival which never fails..."
—alex aronson
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raze
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"life's like a movie. write your own ending. keep believing. keep pretending."
(kermit the frog sang that. and when a felted frog sings it, you know it must be true.)
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raze
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"at this stage in my life, i want to be happy. i want to be around people who love me and have my best interests at heart. people i don't have to fight with. there's just not enough years left that i would want to risk not having that again."
— tommy shaw (yes, the dude from styx)
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231012
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past
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"if everything is a priority, then nothing is."
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past
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"surviving is easy, living is hard." (so remember to cut yourself some slack.)
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raze
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"give a ferocious hug to the ones you love most. you never know when you might want that hug with all your soul, and not be able to give it or get it."
— jim beaver
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240419
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past
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"three gears perfectly connected each to the others cannot turn."
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240616
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what's it to you?
who
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