“I don’t know if it was worth dying for-what is?-but it was certainly an idea worth devoting one’s life to. Which is what you did. What a vision you had, my friend. What a goddamned terrible, beautiful vision of things ( Read more... )

"Art and love are the same thing: it's the process of seeing yourself in things that are not you ( Read more... )

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“Imperfection is beauty; madness is genius. And it’s better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.”
- Marilyn Monroe

“Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming- “Wow! What a ride!”

- Hunter S. Thompson

The stars are the apexes of what wonderful triangles! What distant and different beings in the various mansions of the universe are contemplating the same one at the same moment!

- Henry David Thoreau

Air Empathy by Jeffrey McDaniel
On the red-eye from Seattle, a two year-old
in the seat behind me screeches

his little guts out. Instead of dreaming
of stuffing a wad of duct tape

into his mouth, I envy him, how he lets
his pain hang out. I wish I too could drill

a pipeline into the fields of ache, tap
a howl. How long would I need to sob

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Let's take a look at my family.

Dad (50 something): Disappointed that both of his children suck at math (none of us got that gene). Disappointed that my brother chose to go to Oberlin instead of Dartmouth. Loves skiing and frequently goes on ski trips alone (nobody else in our family wants to go). Too intelligent to function.

Mom (40 something): No ( Read more... )

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