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Apr 25

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There are no rules… I would personally never presume to tell anyone else what to do or how to do anything. To me that’s like telling someone else what their religious beliefs should be. Fuck that… If anyone tells you there is only one way, their way, get as far away from them as possible, both physically and philosophically.

Don’t let the fuckers get ya. They can either help you, or not help you, but they can’t stop you… Carry a gun if necessary.

Nothing is original. Steal from anywhere that resonates with inspiration or fuels your imagination… Select only things to steal from that speak directly to your soul. If you do this, your work (and theft) will be authentic. Authenticity is invaluable; originality is nonexistent. And don’t bother concealing your thievery—celebrate it if you feel like it. In any case, always remember what Jean-Luc Godard said: “It’s not where you take things from—it’s where you take them to.”

” Jim Jarmusch, 2004

Dec 19

Dec 11

Nov 30

“In each human heart terror survives
The ravin it has gorged: the loftiest fear
All that they would disdain to think were true:
Hypocrisy and custom make their minds
The fanes of many a worship, now outworn.
They dare not devise good for man’s estate,
And yet they know not that they do not dare.
The good want power, but to weep barren tears.
The powerful goodness want: worse need for them.
The wise want love; and those who love want wisdom;
And all best things are thus confused to ill.
Many are strong and rich, and would be just,
But live among their suffering fellow-men
As if none felt: they know not what they do.” Percy Bysshe Shelley, 1820

Nov 23

“The perfect way is only difficult for those who pick and choose. Do not like, do not dislike; all will then be clear. Make a hairbreadth difference and heaven and earth are set apart; if you want the truth to stand clear against you, never be for or against. The struggle between “for” and “against” is the mind’s worst disease.” Bruce Lee, 1975

Nov 5

Oct 24

“Get a bicycle. You will not regret it. If you live.” Mark Twain

Oct 22

“Like most of the others, I was a seeker, a mover, a malcontent, and at times a stupid hell-raiser. I was never idle long enough to do much thinking, but I felt somehow that my instincts were right. I shared a vagrant optimism that some of us were making real progress, that we had taken an honest road, and that the best of us would inevitably make it over the top. At the same time, I shared a dark suspicion that the life we were leading was a lost cause, that we were all actors, kidding ourselves along on a senseless odyssey. It was the tension between these two poles - a restless idealism on one hand and a sense of impending doom on the other - that kept me going.” HST

Oct 20

“I seek, in the reading of books, only to please myself by an honest diversion; or, if I study, ‘tis for no other science than what treats of the knowledge of myself, and instructs me how to die and how to live well.” Montaigne, 1877

Oct 19

“the path forward seems to go back,
the direct path seems long.
true steadfastness seems changeable,
true clarity seems obscure.
the greatest love seems indifferent,
the greatest wisdom seems childish.” Laozi

Oct 13

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Oct 8

Sep 29

“Being born is going blind
And bowing down a thousand times
Echoes strung
On pure temptation” Townes

Sep 28

“We’re all going to die, all of us, what a circus! That alone should make us love each other but it doesn’t. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities, we are eaten up by nothing.” Bukowski

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I like ham.