F-ing up
... See, I have this theory. People are people. They f*** up. It's human nature to f*** things up horribly ... and we do, constantly. Day in, day out, it's just one f*** up after another, really. But there's this thing we do, called 'Growing Up' - I still haven't quite got that thing, not just yet.
And there's this other thing we do. It's called 'Forgive'. We don't know
why, we just
do.
I debated for ages whether to censor this one or not ... then I figured, what the heck; most of you know what I'm talking about, the others would hate it if I wasn't like this. Shrugs.
[ 19 June 2005 9:40 pm submitted by Unknown
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Misery? Remedy.
Skillful listening is the best remedy for loneliness, loquaciousness, and laryngitis.
-- William Arthur Ward
[ 18 June 2005 6:39 pm submitted by Unknown
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No Greater Sorrow
There is no greater sorrow than to recall in misery the time when we were happy.
-- Dante
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Missing Somebody We've Never Even Met
We're all lonely for something we don't know we're lonely for. How else to explain the curious feeling that goes around feeling like missing somebody we've never even met?
-- David Foster Wallace
[ 16 June 2005 6:34 pm submitted by Unknown
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Showing Feelings
Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth.
-- Benjamin Disraeli
[ 15 June 2005 11:53 pm submitted by Unknown
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Feeling Lost?
There's nothing terribly wrong with feeling lost, so long as that feeling precedes some plan on your part to actually do something about it. Too often a person grows complacent with their disillusionment, perpetually wearing their "discomfort" like a favorite shirt.
-- Jhonen Vasquez
[ 14 June 2005 6:37 pm submitted by Unknown
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Something To Live For
Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for.
-- Dag Hammarskjold
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Night And Day
I know the night is not the same as the day: that all things are different, that the things of the night cannot be explained in the day, because they do not then exist, and the night can be a dreadful time for lonely people once their loneliness has started.
-- Ernest Hemmingway
[ 13 June 2005 6:35 pm submitted by Unknown
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Wisdom
When I have ceased to break my wings
Against the faultiness of things,
And learned that compromises wait
Behind each hardly opened gate,
When I have looked Life in the eyes,
Grown calm and very coldly wise,
Life will have given me the Truth,
And taken in exchange -- my youth.
-- Sara Teasdale
[ 12 June 2005 9:38 pm submitted by Unknown
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Taking Chances
And we're back! I'm hopefully going to be clearing this place up a bit in the next few weeks. Most importantly: I will now maintain one-quote-a-day unless it kills me. Then I'll change to one quote every two days. I hope you'll enjoy Things People Said, back from the dead, as much as I like collecting quotes. And to kick things off, one of my favourite writers:
"In order to be a writer", he continues, "one must take chances and not be afraid to look foolish. I wrote The Razor's Edge while wearing a paper hat. In the first draft of Rain, Sadie Thompson was a parrot. We grope. We take risks. All I had when I began Of Human Bondage was the conjugation 'and'. I knew a story with 'and' in it could be delightful. Gradually the rest took shape."
-- Woody Allen, Side Effects
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