"Earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more than we can ever learn from books." — John Lubbock
"I know it's a cornball thing, but love is passion. Obsession. Someone you can't live without. I say fall head over heels. Find someone you can love like crazy, and who'll love you the same way back. How do you find 'em? Well, you forget your head and you listen to your heart. I'm not hearing any heart. Because the truth is, honey, there's no sense living your life without this. To make the journey and not fall deeply in love, well, you haven't lived a life at all. But you have to try, because if you haven't tried, you haven't lived." - Bill Parish, Meet Joe Black.
Man. I really need to stop bingeing like this. Maybe I will take some home for later next time. (when my dog scores some big food in the park that has been tossed away)
Same. I think what I like about it most is the original concept of the story. It came from a play, I think they said.
Of course, it is equally true that as you age, much of the stuff you simply didn't notice or care about before, suddenly becomes downright amazing! Metamucil, quickly comes to mind.
"Thats a problem for future Homer. Man I dont envy that guy." (Homer Simpson just before downing a glass of mayonaise and vodka.)
"It's the life you can't escape that gives you the knowledge you need to grow as a writer" - Norman Mailer I love this qoute - It helps me "embrace the suck" (David Goggins) of some personal issues going on in my life.
Books. They are lined up on shelves or stacked on a table. There they are wrapped up in their jackets, lines of neat print on nicely bound pages. They look like such orderly, static things. Then you, the reader come along. You open the book jacket, and it can be like opening the gates to an unknown city, or opening the lid of a treasure chest. You read the first word and you're off on a journey of exploration and discovery. - David Almond
"Close your eyes and look in the mirror, you'll see." -Me, completely unironically and utterly cluessly tonight
"What the hell just happened?" Robert Burns "I blew up a building." Brill "Why?" Robert Burns "Because you made a phone call!" Brill From Enemy Of The State.
An author I know once explained why writing became so much more difficult in the twenty-first century: “The biggest problem in my life,” he said, “is that my work machine is also my pornography delivery machine". - Chuck Klosterman
Yup. If you can afford the machine (easy-ish) and the space (harder), I've heard it's best to have a writing computer that cannot connect to the internet.
"Meanings are not determined by situations, but we determine ourselves by the meanings we give to situations." - Alfred Adler Imma huge fan of analogies, I appreciate their ability to help one understand, though I've learnt over the years that they're prone to inaccuracies; that is, analogies rarely perfectly mirror a subject or even a specific element of one. This is how I've interpreted Cave Troll's analogy...even though it's about not being permanently weighed down by the damage done by shitty experiences, or how to efficiently do this, I can't help but notice it also says life is overrated and one should discard it. "Life is kinda like underwear... To hell with underwear, it's overrated and just an extra layer to deal with. Ditch that silly extra fabric,..." Thus to me, the intended message is lost on me based on how I interface with reality. I don't regard the analogy as good or bad, right or wrong, it's just something I can't use to help me navigate life due to the conflicting info I see.
