18 years, and 4 months.
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Apr 17, 2018 @ 20:51, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Tag Archives: wisdom
Oft-attributed to Eleanor Roosevelt
Great minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people.
e.e. cummings (via platea)
It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.
Mark Twain (via s0nata)
If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and man.
fuckyeahmanuscripts: Virginia Woolf’s handwriting in a 1921 letter to Katherine Mansfield, where she
fuckyeahmanuscripts: Virginia Woolf’s handwriting in a 1921 letter to Katherine Mansfield, where she
Kurt Vonnegut via Russian Red Lipstick
Who is more to be pitied, a writer bound and gagged by policemen or one living in perfect freedom who has nothing more to say?
“Dutch”, Badly Broken Code, Dessa Damn straight.
Innocence is overrated, based on what you haven’t done.
Aaron Sorkin’s Poet Laureate
An artist’s job is to captivate you for however long as we’ve asked for your attention. If we stumble into truth, we got lucky, and I don’t get to decide what truth is…I write poetry, Toby. That’s how I enter the world.
Tabitha Fortis in “The U.S. Poet Laureate” on The West Wing
I whole heartedly agree with the first sentence. I just ask, if artists can’t decide what truth is who can? Can anyone?
When in doubt on where to begin, take from a smart albeit grim ancient Greek. Luckily i’m an optimist.
Life is short,
art long,
opportunity fleeting,
experiment fallible,
judgment difficult.