Aspiring Human

slaughterhouse90210:

“That ‘writers write’ is meant to be self-evident. People like to say it. I find it is hardly ever true. Writers drink. Writers rant. Writers phone. Writers sleep. I have met very few writers who write at all.”
—Renata Adler, Speedboat

My dilemma in a nutshell.

baliset:

ain’t no party like a Gatsby party because a Gatsby party don’t stop until at least two people are dead and everyone is disillusioned with the jazz age as a whole

(via scribnerbooks)

Frank Herbert, Dune (via liquidnight)

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Elie Wiesel (via zenhumanism)

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rumputsantoso:

Fact 1: Reading can make you a better conversationalist.

Fact 2: Neighbours will never complain that your book is too loud.

Fact 3: Knowledge by osmosis has not yet been perfected. You’d better read.

Fact 4: Books have stopped bullets - reading might save your life.

Fact 5: Dinosaurs didn’t read. Look what happened to them.

(via brittafiltration)

cokeflow:

when I was like 6 i was at church with my family and I asked my mom how much longer until it was over and she said 15 minutes so I counted to 60 fifteen times and it still wasn’t over and that’s why I don’t believe in god

Infallible logic.

(Source: driveway, via brittafiltration)

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lazyyogi:

there’s so much empty space in the sky when the sun starts going down. space left bare by the leaves in the trees.

everything feels so much bigger when you can see your breath floating off into nothingness

Ogyen Trinley Dorje, “Intelligence & Investigation” (Tricycle Daily Dharma)

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tylerknott:

It’s so easy to fall in love with the big things, the giant sunset views and the sweeping vistas of far-off mountains.  It’s easy to fall in love with the thunderstorms and the grand lightning flashes.  It’s another thing entirely, more work, more energy, more effort to fall in love with the individual raindrops, the miniature insects that fly-around unseen and unappreciated.  Stop, stare, and give them the respect, adoration and awe that they deserve.  Fall in love with the little things, and the big things will seem even bigger.  I promise.

Crazy Bee Fly Macro On Daisy (by TylerKnott)

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lazyyogi:

Don’t allow the fear to overpower you, allow love to overpower you. Love comes from the center, fear always comes from the periphery; don’t allow this periphery to be dominant.

Osho

Much needed.

Beautiful.

(Source: lazyyogi)

britticisms:

I thought about the novels of Marguerite Duras or Francoise Sagan or Jeanette Winterson. Their writing invokes an idea of love that is painful and all-consuming and torrential. I could relate without feeling those feelings. But then I felt something. Perhaps it was not love, but it was…

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