“You can, you should, and if you’re brave enough to start, you will.”
— Stephen King / On Writing
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“You can, you should, and if you’re brave enough to start, you will.”
— Stephen King / On Writing
“You wear a mask for so long, you forget who you were beneath it.”
— Alan Moore, V for Vendetta
i want friends with whom i can visit art galleries and photography collections, exchange monthly book recommendations, take long city walks during the night, drink cheap wine while listening to vinyl records, browse second-hand bookshops, spend all day in little libraries, sit on balconies and take pictures of the evening sky
“Date someone you can have rough sex and deep conversations with whether it be at 2 am or 2 pm.”
— Unknown
“Writers aren’t exactly people..they’re a whole bunch of people trying to be one person.”
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
be poetic. if you find the way the light falls through your window and onto your bedroom wall pretty, write about it. call it soft and golden as sunlit honey. if it makes you glad to be alive then it’s not silly. you look for the beauty of things, be proud of that. say the heavy rain is kissing you. write about the glow of the moon, the dancing of flowers. make your world magical. collect your metaphors and treasure them.
“Let not any one pacify his conscience by the delusion that he can do no harm if he takes no part, and forms no opinion. Bad men need nothing more to compass their ends, than that good men should look on and do nothing.”
— John Stuart Mill, “Inaugural Address Delivered to the University of St. Andrews”, Feb. 1st 1867
“None sing as purely as those in deepest hell; it is their singing we take for the singing of angels.”
— Franz Kafka, Letters to Milena
We, as humans, feel such a desperate need for control that we think we’re inadequate when we can’t control everything in life. The truth is, there will always be things we can’t control. Just let go and love yourself.
