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Nothing is true. Anything is possible. Everything is permitted.
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Thanks @Moose72! I was definitely in the creative zone when I wrote this, much like you are now. A great place to be.
Another quote I love: Failure is an opportunity. If you blame someone else, There is no end to the blame. - Tao Te Ching |
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"I'd tell you all you want and more, if the sounds i make could be what you hear."
"Infinite Jest" David Foster Wallace |
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“Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned.” -Buddha (?)
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“Don’t walk a mile in my shoes, that’s boring. Spend 30 seconds in my head and you will freak the f out “
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@wolftrap: I'm not a very sturdy reader either. I just got thru this book the best i could the first time. It's meant to be read more than once. I've read my favorite parts ten times or more. I've memorized parts. Maybe try reading the passage that starts on page 17, the marijuana debauch. It's a short story that goes on for ten pages and is written in common words and the style of good old-fashioned story-telling. I laughed so hard i could barely breathe!
There are parts of the book that i skipped like the two political operatives talking on the mountainside. It's so hard to get thru the book the first time because there are long passages that just seem to go on forever. It's hard to keep going when you don't know when they'll end. Subsequent times thru are easier because you know what to expect. I quit this book a bunch of times when i first read it because there are passages that are downright horrifying. But i'm glad i hung in there for the parts that are ethereal, poignant or just very funny. I learned things too, like how he says self-loathing is narcissistic. That really struck me. I guess whether you hate yourself too much or love yourself too much, either way you are overly-involved with yourself. Wallace had depression and said he wrote the book in a style designed to reflect the fractured nature of reality. One of my favorite quotes might not work out of context, but here goes: "[The] drunk and the maimed, both are dragged forward out of the arena like a boneless Christ, one man under each arm, feet dragging, eyes on the aether." |
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@whatever2013 that's quite a quote. Clearly, I must try again. My library is semi-closed due to Covid, but I will try to take it out. I've always wanted to like Wallace, just like I've always wanted to like Murakami (whom my daughter loves). I've tried M. with more perseverance than I've tried Wallace. M. didn't click for me, but I'll try to pick up on p.17 with Wallace.
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Both of my (adult) children are wild over Murakami. I've tried twice to read his work and flat-nothing.
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Right??? I don't get it!
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Thanks @whatever2013, I will read it, and my library just informed me they have the Infinite Jest. I'll let you know how it goes. |
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#38
Midway upon the journey of our life, I found myself within a forest dark, for the straightforward pathway had been lost.
― Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy |
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So I'm letting it go again
I'm halfway full on Left my meds on the sink today My head will be racing by lunchtime Don't sleep behind the wheel at the stoplight Can't sleep behind the wheel as you're driving home You keep coming down the hill as you're falling You keep falling from the hill as you're coming down Can't sleep behind the wheel at the stoplight Can't sleep behind the wheel as you're driving home So I'm holding her hand again My palm sweats Hold on Think I've had too much coffee I'm manic as hell But I'm going strong - Stone Temple Pilots, "Bipolar Bear" The former lead singer had bipolar and struggled his entire life. Unfortunately, he refused medication. But I kinda feel this song. |
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I been scarred and battered.
My hopes the wind done scattered. Snow has friz me, Sun has baked me, Looks like between ’em they done Tried to make me Stop laughin’, stop lovin’, stop livin’– But I don’t care! I’m still here! —Langston Hughes |
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