(Source: lastdaysofmagic)
“
Grace: Two days ago he asked me if I liked music. Like music is something people don’t like. You know, he posed the question like it was some great conversation-starter. “Grace, do you like music?” It was painful.
Burt: I don’t know, I wish somebody would ask me that sometime, you know? ‘Cause that’s a probing sort of intelligence, I think.
” — Away We Go
(Source: playcrack-thesky)
“Sun is bad for you. Everything our parents said was good is bad. Sun, milk, red meat … college.” — Alvy Singer, Annie Hall
“
November like a train wreck –
as if a locomotive made of cold
had hurtled out of Canada
and crashed into a million trees,
flaming the leaves, setting the woods on fire.
The sky is a thick, cold gauze –
but there’s a soup special at the Waffle House downtown,
and the Jack Parsons show is up at the museum,
full of luminous red barns.
– Or maybe I’ll visit beautiful Donna,
the kickboxing queen from Santa Fe,
and roll around in her foldout bed.
I know there are some people out there
who think I am supposed to end up
in a room by myself
with a gun and a bottle full of hate,
a locked door and my slack mouth open
like a disconnected phone.
But I hate those people back
from the core of my donkey soul
and the hatred makes me strong
and my survival is their failure,
and my happiness would kill them
so I shove joy like a knife
into my own heart over and over
and I force myself toward pleasure,
and I love this November life
where I run like a train
deeper and deeper
into the land of my enemies.
“Given a long enough time, of course, a wide enough frame, there is nothing said or done, ever, that isn’t ironic in the end.” — Mrs. Horrible Morrible, Wicked by Gregory Maguire
The Secret to More Energy: Tap the Geyser of Your Gifts -
An unused gift (or one you don’t take all the way to harvest) will quietly annihilate your life. It’s not that you’ll keel over because you didn’t start taking photographs or sing. But you will walk off kilter. Your heart will sag with an extra thousand pounds. Your voice will crack when you say your name. There is something unrighteous about not doing what you came here to do.
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