"Sometimes you make up your mind about something without knowing why, and your decision persists by the power of inertia. Every year it gets harder to change."
The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Milan Kundera (via frigidairebear)
Mein Gott, hilf mir diese tödliche Liebe zu überleben.
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"We are here to fart around. Don’t let anyone tell you different."
Kurt Vonnegut (via kaleidoscope-view)
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"Remembering our past, carrying it around with us always, may be the necessary requirement for maintaining, as they say, the wholeness of the self. To ensure that the self doesn’t shrink, to see that it holds on to its volume, memories have to be watered like potted flowers, and the watering calls for regular contact with the witnesses of the past, that is to say, with friends. They are our mirror; our memory; we ask nothing of them but that they polish the mirror from time to time so we can look at ourselves in it."
—Milan Kundera, Identity (1999)
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"Let all of life be an unfettered howl. Like the crowd greeting the gladiator. Don’t stop to think, don’t interrupt the scream, exhale, release life’s rapture. Everything is blooming. Everything is flying. Everything is screaming, choking on its screams. Laughter. Running. Let-down hair. That is all there is to life. "
Vladimir Nabokov (via apostlepaulbunyan)
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"I sometimes wondered what the use of any of the arts was. The best thing I could come up with was what I call the canary in the coal mine theory of the arts. This theory says that artists are useful to society because they are so sensitive. They are super-sensitive. They keel over like canaries in poison coal mines long before more robust types realize that there is any danger whatsoever."
Kurt Vonnegut (via crooked-vulture)
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"A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved."
Kurt Vonnegut (via grinning-soul)
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"Students who acquire large debts putting themselves through school are unlikely to think about changing society. When you trap people in a system of debt they can’t afford the time to think. Tuition fee increases are a “disciplinary technique,” and, by the time students graduate, they are not only loaded with debt, but have also internalized the “disciplinarian culture.” This makes them efficient components of the consumer economy."
Noam Chomsky (via quiettemperament)
(Source: urbankitsch, via intotheroots)
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"The people are immensely likable— cheerful, extrovert, quick-witted, and unfailingly obliging. Their cities are safe and clean and nearly always built on water. They have a society that is prosperous, well ordered, and instinctively egalitarian. The food is excellent. The beer is cold. The sun nearly always shines. There is coffee on every corner. Life doesn’t get much better than this."
Bill Bryson, In a Sunburned Country (via caitcurr)
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"Love is where you find it. I think it is foolish to go around looking for it, and I think it can be poisonous. I wish people who are conventionally supposed to love each other would say to each other, when they fight, ‘Please-a little less love, and a little more common decency."
Kurt Vonnegut.
(via thesailormark)(Source: northisnotup)
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"Here we are, trapped in the amber of the moment. There is no why."
Kurt Vonnegut (via thequotecollector)
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"But actually, to practice any art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow. So do it. Dance on your way out of here. Sing on your way out of here. Write a love poem when you get home. Draw a picture of your bed or roommate."
Kurt Vonnegut, “Knowing What’s Nice” (via panoplyofsong)
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"I admire anybody who has the guts to write anything at all."
E. B. White (via dreambig-gofar)
(via intotheroots)
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"we may be all there is. it’s an unnerving thought that we may be the living universe’s supreme achievement and its worst nightmare simultaneously."
bill bryson, a short history of nearly everything, pg. 462 (via intotheroots)
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