Inspiration Bored

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Home Suite Home. Kissimmee, Florida. Photograph by Alec Soth.

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The Key Hotel. Kissimmee, Florida. Photograph by Alec Soth.

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Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they've been given than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact. It's an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It's a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing.

Muhammad Ali

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It is the job of the creator to explode. It is the task of the academic to walk around the bomb site, gathering up the shrapnel, to figure out what kind of an explosion it was, who was killed, how much damage it was meant to do and how close it came to actually achieving that.

Neil Gaiman, keynote at the thirty-fifth International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts, held in Orlando, Florida, in 2013.

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Bernard Voïta.

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your life is your life don’t let it be clubbed into dank submission. be on the watch. there are ways out. there is light somewhere. it may not be much light but it beats the darkness. be on the watch. the gods will offer you chances. know them. take them. you can’t beat death but you can beat death in life, sometimes. and the more often you learn to do it, the more light there will be. your life is your life. know it while you have it. you are marvelous the gods wait to delight in you.

Charles Bukowski

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Design Work by Marleigh Culver. 

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The nature of illusion is that it’s designed to make you feel good. About yourself, about your country, about where you’re going – in that sense it functions like a drug. Those who question that illusion are challenged not so much for the veracity of what they say, but for puncturing those feelings.

Chris Hedges

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Photo by Harley Weir.

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I mean, photography is all right if you don't mind looking at the world from the point of view of a paralyzed cyclops—for a split second.

David Hockney

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Pearlblossom Hwy. 1986. By David Hockney. 

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I belong everywhere I go, no matter where it is, or who I am with, as long as I never betray myself. The minute I become who you want me to be, in order to fit in and make sure people like me, is the moment I no longer belong anywhere.

Brene Brown

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Photography by Jasper Abels. 

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Photography by Jasper Abels. 

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Photography by Jasper Abels. 

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Photography by Jasper Abels. 

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Photo-Graphie by Laurence Demaison.