February 2012
January 2012
“Advice? I don’t have advice. Stop aspiring and start writing. If you’re writing, you’re a writer. Write like you’re a goddamn death row inmate and the governor is out of the country and there’s no chance for a pardon. Write like you’re clinging to the edge of a cliff, white knuckles, on your last breath, and you’ve got just one last thing to say, like you’re a bird flying over us and you can see everything, and please, for God’s sake, tell us something that will save us from ourselves. Take a deep breath and tell us your deepest, darkest secret, so we can wipe our brow and know that we’re not alone. Write like you have a message from the king. Or don’t. Who knows, maybe you’re one of the lucky ones who doesn’t have to.”
—Alan Watts (via neil-gaiman)
“Some people get the wrong idea, you know. If you’re quiet and you’re just not the most gregarious person, that you’re like.. I don’t know, self-involved, rude possibly, frigid. I get that a lot from people who don’t know me, like online all you guys think I never smile, ever. It’s not true. I do smile sometimes.”
— Kristen Stewart (via sordinos)
“You can hide your face behind a smile. One thing you can’t hide - is when you’re crippled inside.”
—John Lennon, Crippled Inside (via misswallflower)
“I wanted the whole world or nothing.”
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Charles Bukowski
relevant. the most accurate description of myself at this time.
(via spareunderthemat)
“I like myself. I’m the best form of entertainment I have. Let’s drink more wine!”
—Charles Bukowski (via spareunderthemat)
“Sometimes you climb out of bed in the morning and you think, I’m not going to make it, but you laugh inside — remembering all the times you’ve felt that way.”
—Charles Bukowski (via spareunderthemat)
“Blogging is not writing. Blogging is graffiti with punctuation.”
—A character in the movie Contagion. (via georgiegirlnyc)
"When the past calls let it go to voicemail, it has nothing new to say."
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Although McAdams doesn’t reveal which of her former boyfriends has gone the extra mile, she says: “Someone once went behind my back, got all of my measurements, and had a dress made for me.” (Although unconfirmed, all signs point to Gosling, who has a passion for designing clothes).
And did this gesture win her over? “It certainly did,” she smiles. “I had seen the dress in a window one night when we were walking. I stopped and I was just gazing at it and he did that for me. That was lovely.”
” —[x] (via fuckyeahmcgosling)
“It was like sawdust, the unhappiness: it infiltrated everything, everything was a problem, everything made her cry - school, homework, boyfriends, the future, the lack of future, the uncertainty of future, fear of future, fear in general - but it was so hard to say exactly what the problem was in the first place.”
—Melanie Thernstrom (via eletheowl)
“My dad came here, and worked in a factory. People made fun of him because he wasn’t American, and they called him all kinds of names, and it hurt him, deeply. My dad passed away last year, and I always asked him what was he the most proud of? And the first factory job, not when he made some money, not when he got promoted, that first factory job where he swept floors.”
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Robert Herjavec
everyone lost their shit a little bit over this. i teared up for sure.
(via spareunderthemat)
“People who see the world coming to an end are simply people who can’t imagine life after they die. If they have to go, they’re going to take the world along with them.”
—Eleanor Rigby by Douglas Coupland (via thechocolatebrigade)
Beware of the word “friend”. It can often be used by men or the women that love them to excuse the most unfriendly behavior. Personally, when I’m picking friends, I like the ones who don’t make me cry myself to sleep.
Cut your losses and don’t waste your time . Why stay in some weird dating limbo when you can move on to what will surely be better territory? Don’t want to hear it? Fine. Here’s the answer you’re looking for, “Hang in there, baby. He’s not the loser everybody’s telling you he is. If you wait and keep your mouth shut and call at exactly the right time and anticipate his moods and have no expectations about communication or your own sexual needs, you can have him!” But please don’t be surprised if he dumps you or continues to drag you through a completely unsatisfying relationship.
“From those of us who are left behind: you will be remembered, you were the one I needed, I loved you in my dreams.”
—Bret Easton Ellis, Lunar Park (via paintingparadise)
“Downloading music is the same thing I used to do: I used to record all the songs in tapes, the hits, the songs I liked from the radio. I don’t care. I hate seeing all those big rock stars complaining. At least they’re paying attention to your music, moron, and they’re paying attention to you, you know? You should appreciate that, fuck. Why are you complaining? You have 5 fucking big houses, so shut up”.”
—Liam Gallagher (via demycrawley)
“The good times and the bad times both will pass. It will pass. It will get easier. But the fact that it will get easier does not mean that it doesn’t hurt now. And when people try to minimize your pain they are doing you a disservice. And when you try to minimize your own pain you’re doing yourself a disservice. Don’t do that. The truth is that it hurts because it’s real. It hurts because it mattered. And that’s an important thing to acknowledge to yourself. But that doesn’t mean that it won’t end, that it won’t get better. Because it will.”
—John Green (via iloveyourglasses)
“You know, it’s hard work to write a book. I can’t tell you how many times I really get going on an idea, then my quill breaks. Or I spill ink all over my writing tunic.”
—Ellen DeGeneres; The Funny Thing Is… (via wordpainting)
“Maybe there’s something you’re afraid to say, or someone you’re afraid to love, or somewhere you’re afraid to go. It’s gonna hurt. It’s gonna hurt because it matters.”
—Will Grayson, Will Grayson (via anditslove)
“I know it hurts right now, sweetheart, but that’s how you know it was a relationship worth having.”
—Modern Family (via eletheowl)
“Writing is like sex. First you do it for love, then you do it for your friends, and then you do it for money.”
—Virginia Woolf (via 1112pm)
