Quoteworthy

“There's something to be said that if everyone likes something there's gotta be something fucking wrong with it on some level. Unless it's ice cream.” 
-Marc Maron











Now Playing: "First Cool Hive" by Moby
*Yes, I just watched Scream.

Quoteworthy

"For many of us, we set out thinking there will be time in the future and then suddenly we find ourselves at a moment when we have to acknowledge that the future isn't infinite. In our culture, we're able to remain young, or to think of ourselves as young, for a very long time- probably an amount of time unprecedented in history. And so, we can get well into our thirties, thinking that the future is all ahead of us, and there comes a realization at some point, that it isn't. And that's a realization that happens for people who are doing what they want to do as much as for people who haven't been able to."
-Claire Messud












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Survey Says: Ideas

Where/When I get the best ideas: In the shower or on a walk by myself in the park.

The best idea I ever had: Facebook. I didn't call it Facebook but the idea was there. 1999-ish.

The worst idea I ever had: If you were to ask my bank account, probably my major in college but I'm good with my choice and so thrilled with where I went to school. There really wouldn't have been anything else I was more interested in studying.

An idea that others didn't understand: People look at me like I'm crazy when I tell them I occasionally do water fasts. I suppose it sounds pretty extreme (which it can be) but it's very beneficial when done properly.

An idea that someone stole from me: I wrote this frivolous little poem called "A Pittsburgh Girl." I only posted it on a few of my close friends Facebook walls back in '05. It then spread all around the world in e-mails, message boards, blogs, social media, etc. I obviously never got credit for it. I've seen it slightly rewritten so many times or with other people's names attached to it. I wrote it almost jokingly and in just a couple of minutes. Crazy that it became so popular. My friends don't even believe me when I tell them I wrote it and I'm an extremely honest person. My sister is the only one that knows it was me because she watched me write it.

An idea I had when I was little: I thought the world was literally black and white before color film was invented.

An idea I had today: This little survey. Of course, I was in the shower... thinking of all the previous ideas I've had and want to follow through with.

An idea I'll probably have tomorrow: The snooze button is always a good idea.

















Now Playing: "Creep" by Stone Temple Pilots
*It's been stuck in my head lately

Quoteworthy

"Some people hear their own inner voices with great clearness. And they live by what they hear. Such people become crazy... or they become legend."
-Jim Harrison














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Quoteworthy

ERNEST HEMINGWAY b. July 21, 1899 d. July 2, 1961

No writer who knows the great writers who did not receive the Prize can accept it other than with humility. There is no need to list these writers. Everyone here may make his own list according to his knowledge and his conscience.

It would be impossible for me to ask the Ambassador of my country to read a speech in which a writer said all of the things which are in his heart. Things may not be immediately discernible in what a man writes, and in this sometimes he is fortunate; but eventually they are quite clear and by these and the degree of alchemy that he possesses he will endure or be forgotten.

Writing, at its best, is a lonely life. Organizations for writers palliate the writer's loneliness but I doubt if they improve his writing. He grows in public stature as he sheds his loneliness and often his work deteriorates. For he does his work alone and if he is a good enough writer he must face eternity, or the lack of it, each day.

For a true writer each book should be a new beginning where he tries again for something that is beyond attainment. He should always try for something that has never been done or that others have tried and failed. Then sometimes, with good luck, he will succeed.

How simple the writing of literature would be if it were only necessary to write in another way what has been well written. It is because we have had such great writers in the past that a writer is driven far out past where he can go, out to where no one can help him.

I have spoken too long for a writer. A writer should write what he has to say and not speak it. Again I thank you.

-Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech,  1954





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