It’s not we need new ideas, but we need to stop having old ideas.
- Edwin Land (by startupquote)
(Source: thetaoofdana)
"Instead of thinking that there was no future, all I did was plan for the future, treating the present tense and all its tension like a lengthy, labored preamble to a real life that awaited me somewhere, anywhere else but here."
— Elizabeth Wurtzel (via creatingaquietmind)
(Source: leslieseuffert, via teachingliteracy)
"史蒂芬金所思考的恐怖的質，如果以一句話說出，就是「絕望」。史蒂芬金小說的出場人物一邊害怕那絕望的影子，一邊想在某種暫定的價值觀下追求有救的生活。那很多情況是男女的愛或家庭。剛開始看來似乎進行順利，然而絕望總是以不可抗拒的超自然力量壓倒他們。就算擁有愛也無法推開那力量。因為他們一生下來身體就被烙上「絕望」這印記了。反過來說，他們唯有透過所謂絕望這〈無救〉才能表達愛。"
— 村上春樹－《村上春樹雜文集》p.238 - p.239
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What is music? This is music for holidays, for a bad day, for a happy day, for everyday.
"When you don’t have many friends and you don’t have a social life you’re kind of left looking at things, not doing things. There’s a weird freedom in not having people treat you like you’re part of society or where you have to fulfill social relationships."
— Tim Burton (via narcoticalupus)
(Source: bellamort-in-wonderland, via teachingliteracy)
"The test of courage comes when we are in the minority. The test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority."
— Ralph W. Sockman (via thesearepeopleyouknow)
(via booklover)
