July 2011
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“Live the life you wish to, date the man you wish to date, and stop looking to...”
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I was trying to figure out today why I am writing. Why do we write memoirs, diaries, or journals? Maybe for the same reason we carve our names into wood and sign guest books at exhibitions; to convince the world that we existed at some point, to the extent that it is possible to exist as a human being. “I was here, and these are the things that happened to me, I swear, I lived through this. Can...
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I’ve become so focused on making music and discovering music and people and work and writing and exercise and Starbucks Iced Caramel Macchiatos and basically trying to wear myself out so that I feel like I did something at the end of the day. It’s workin’, I’d say.
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“She must find a boat and sail in it. No guarantee of shore. Only a conviction...”
– Jeanette Winterson
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“You have to decide what your highest priorities are and have the courage -...”
– Stephen Cove
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I think people are afraid of forgetting and being forgotten more so than anything. That’s why they take pictures of each other and themselves and write postcards and letters, and put little sentences and doodles into their journals, so their connections with one another and their existence in its context will have a tangible proof. “I was here and so were you, and we noticed each other, and now...
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If there would be one thing I could tell everyone in the world, I think it would be that I believe in us all. I think we can make it. I think we can all be happy, and not on the expense of our own or each other. I think if we only look out for each other mostly, but also ourselves, I think we will be all set. I cross my fingers every morning when I wake up, that today would be the day. But I have...
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“You don’t get anything worth getting by pretending to know things you...”
– Sam Harris
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“The only man who can change his mind is a man that’s got one.”
– Edward Noyes Westcott 