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Charles Spurgeon
Wendell Berry, from “How to Be a Poet (to remind myself),” published in Poetry (January 2001)
Charles H. Spurgeon
it is very childish and naive but i am still so shocked to see that so many people are just fucking outright mean
take a jacket just in case
Ritual Is Journey, Chris Abani
Every time I get frustrated with a tool or appliance I think about the bit in 17776 about how people crave a little bit of inefficiency, how if everything always worked perfectly and instantly we would lose a lot of the joys of being human, how deeply humans want to want, and I try to find the joy and humanity in what's frustrating me and enjoy that it's not perfect
but this does not apply to printers. absolute bastard machines
[looking at pictures of galaxies] You hold all this; You must hold me too.
“Still, being alone doesn’t mean you have to be miserable. In that sense it’s different from losing something. You’ve still got yourself, even if you lose everything else. You’ve got to have faith in yourself and not get down just because you’re on your own.”
— Yōko Ogawa, The Diving Pool
ex friends are like. last time i remembered you i got so angry i almost crashed my car. i still think about your laugh whenever i see one of your favorite scenes on the show we used to watch together. you made me cry 3 years after we last spoke. i think of you on your birthday. you are a part of some of the best memories i have of my life. i hate you.
Mary Oliver, from “Five A.M. in the Pinewoods”, The Truro Bear and Other Adventures: Poems and Essays
We don’t own people we experience them.
the thing about me is that i occasionally take it very personally
“Just because you wander in the desert, it does not mean there is a promised land.”
— Paul Auster, The Invention of Solitude
