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@gotwilk
People who are not in love fail to understand how an intelligent man can suffer because of a very ordinary woman. This is like being surprised that anyone should be stricken with cholera because of a creature so insignificant as the common bacillus.
Marcel Proust
Jeff Koons.
The Periodic Table of Storytelling
I think an excellent and challenging exercise for narrative writing would be to select at random a handful of elements from The Periodic Table of Storytelling* by James Harris. It’s wonderful:
[make sure to click through for the full version]
*fair warning to teachers: unfortunately, some of this is probably not quite safe for the classroom.
"Our imperfections humanize us and make us lovable. It's your personality that shines. Yes, we live in a looks-based society, but looks will just get you in the door, they won't seal the deal. The truth is you've got to let your freak flag fly, you've got to be yourself, which is hard in a society that is constantly reinforcing you're inadequate."
- Bob Lefsetz, Why Is John Oliver So Good?
In a tradition dating back to the 60's, before each practice in the offseason, children line up outside of Lambeau field to await the Green Bay Packers in hopes that one of the players will ride their bike onto the practice field. I don't care much for sports, but the Packers are now officially my favorite football team.
I will never trust or understand anyone who says they don't like dogs.
People become successful when they’re helped by others. No one wants to help an asshole.
White Sands National Monument, New Mexico
Unlike a variety of other relationships, friendship requires an acknowledgement by both parties that they are involved or it fails to exist. One can admire someone who is completely unaware of our admiration, and the integrity of that admiration is not lost; one may even employ someone without knowing who it is specifically one employs; one may be related to a great-aunt whom one has never met (and may fail ever to meet). And one may, of course, fall in love with someone without the beloved being aware of it or reciprocating the love at all. And in all these cases, the relationships are still what they are, whatever the attitude of the other person in them: they are relationships of admiration, business, family, or love.
But friendship is different. Friendship uniquely requires mutual self-knowledge and will. It takes two competent, willing people to be friends. You cannot impose a friendship on someone, although you can impose a crush, a lawsuit, or an obsession. If friendship is not reciprocated, it simply ceases to exist or, rather, it never existed in the first place.
-Andrew Sullivan
yelibun:
Reading a stranger’s diary from the 1970s
"If you don’t get out now, you may end up like the frog that is placed in a pot of fresh water on the stove. As the temperature is gradually increased, the frog feels restless and uncomfortable, but not uncomfortable enough to jump out. Without being aware that a chance is taking place, he is gradually lulled into unconsciousness.
Much the same thing happens when you take a person and put him in a job which he does not like. He gets irritable in his groove. His duties soon become a monotonous routine that slowly dulls his senses. As I walk into offices, through factories and stores, I often find myself looking into the expressionless faces of people going through mechanical motions. They are people whose minds are stunned and slowly dying."
- William J. Reilly, How To Avoid Work
If we listened to our intellect, we’d never have a love affair. We’d never have a friendship. We’d never go into business, because we’d be cynical. Well that’s nonsense. You’ve got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down.
-Ray Bradbury
In the entire history of the Earth, all of human presence comprises just 0.08% (that's 8 one-hundredths of one percent) of all of Earth history. Considering this timescale, we humans are merely an eye blink in history. I like to remember this when I'm feeling overwhelmed about anything in particular. We're all relatively insignificant; The only things that really matter in life are the relationships we have with each other and with ourselves, the lessons we learn, the things we see and all of the fleeting emotions we feel. Life is to be lived, and the only way to really live is to remind yourself often of how quickly it passes and try to enjoy every single moment, no matter what it may be.
Photo of prisoners of the Presido Modelo, a Cuban prison designed on the principles of Jeremy Bentham's panoptic model, taken in 1926 when it was fully operational.
Creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
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