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"Nobody tells this to people who are beginners, I wish someone told me. All of us who do creative work, we get into it because we have good taste. But there is this gap. For the first couple years you make stuff, it’s just not that good. It’s trying to be good, it has potential, but it’s not. But your taste, the thing that got you into the game, is still killer. And your taste is why your work disappoints you. A lot of people never get past this phase, they quit. Most people I know who do interesting, creative work went through years of this. We know our work doesn’t have this special thing that we want it to have. We all go through this. And if you are just starting out or you are still in this phase, you gotta know its normal and the most important thing you can do is do a lot of work. Put yourself on a deadline so that every week you will finish one story. It is only by going through a volume of work that you will close that gap, and your work will be as good as your ambitions. And I took longer to figure out how to do this than anyone I’ve ever met. It’s gonna take awhile. It’s normal to take awhile. You’ve just gotta fight your way through."

— Ira Glass

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What if ee cummings just didn’t know how to work his typewriter?

je    sus
fu   c k     i ng chris
t how
do e       s    thi   s
t   ype   w
r i    t         er
w   o r              k

-e.e. cummings 

(Source: dongcity, via malakistani)

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from the Paik Nam June Art Gallery, South Korea.

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"Suppose damnation was eternal! Then a man who would mutilate himself is well damned, isnt he? … I am the slave of my own baptism. Parents, you have been my undoing and your own. Poor innocent! — Hell has no power over pagans!"

— Arthur Rimbaud (via cursedhope)

(via cochonville)

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"Why should I fear death?
If I am, death is not.
If death is. I am not.
Why should I fear that which cannot exist when I do?"

— Epicurus (via moldavia)

(via moldavia)

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"Lost opportunities, lost possibilities, feelings we can never get back. That’s part of what it means to be alive. But inside our heads - at least that’s where I imagine it - there’s a little room where we store those memories. A room like the stacks in this library. And to understand the workings of our own heart we have to keep on making new reference cards. We have to dust things off every once in awhile, let in fresh air, change the water in the flower vases. In other words, you’ll live forever in your own private library."

— Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore (via velsier)

(Source: whereismyx, via velsier)

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dictionaryofobscuresorrows:

n. the realization that each random passerby is living a life as vivid and complex as your own—populated with their own ambitions, friends, routines, worries and inherited craziness—an epic story that continues invisibly around you like an anthill sprawling deep underground, with elaborate passageways to thousands of other lives that you’ll never know existed, in which you might appear only once, as an extra sipping coffee in the background, as a blur of traffic passing on the highway, as a lighted window at dusk.