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The Mixtapes
"To live is to be musical, starting with the blood dancing in your veins. Everything living has a rhythm. Do you feel your music?" — Michael Jackson
“the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars.”
- jack kerouac, on the road
“if i know what love is, it is because of you.”
- hermann hesse
“to him she seemed so seductive, so different from ordinary people, that he could not understand why no one was as disturbed as he by the clicking of her heels on the paving stones, why no one else’s heart was wild with the breeze stirred by the sighs of her veils, why everyone did not go mad with the movements of her braid, the flight of her hands, the gold of her laughter. he had not missed a single one of her gestures, not one of the indications of her character, but he did not dare approach her for fear of destroying the spell.”
- gabriel garcia marquez
“wilde said if you want to be a grocer or a general or a politician or a judge, you will invariably become it. that is your punishment. if you never know what you want to be, if you live what some might call the dynamic life but i will call the artistic life - if each day you are unsure of who you are and what you know - you will never become anything, and that is your reward.”
- stephen fry on oscar wilde
jean: so you think i have charm? (she nods) which means i’m not good-looking. people only call people charming when they’re not good-looking.
irene: this is what you don’t understand. charm beats looks. a girl can resist your good looks…but she cannot resist charm.
do stuff. be clenched, curious. not waiting for inspiration’s shove or society’s kiss on your forehead. pay attention. it’s all about paying attention. attention is vitality. it connects you with others. it makes you eager. stay eager.
- susan sontag
“That is part of the beauty of all literature. You discover that your longings are universal longings, that you’re not lonely and isolated from anyone. You belong.”
- f. scott fitzgerald
(Source: enivrer, via scribblerofdreams)
rachel: do you think it’s easy for me to see you with someone else?
ross: you know what, hey! you’re the one who ended it! remember?
rachel: yeah, because i was mad at you! not because i stopped loving you.
“Among other things, you’ll find that you’re not the first person who was ever confused and frightened and even sickened by human behavior. You’re by no means alone on that score, you’ll be excited and stimulated to know. Many, many men have been just as troubled morally and spiritually as you are right now. Happily, some of them kept records of their troubles. You’ll learn from them—if you want to. Just as someday, if you have something to offer, someone will learn something from you. It’s a beautiful reciprocal arrangement. And it isn’t education. It’s history. It’s poetry.”
- j.d. salinger
“only in the darkness can you see the stars.”
- martin luther king jr.
