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Edward Lucie-Smith: Do you ever feel affectionate about people, or is that against feeling, too? Andy Warhol: I like everybody, so, that’s affection. ELW: What, the great thing is to feel affectionate towards everybody in the world? AW: Yeah. ELW: Do you ever allow yourself to dislike people, then? AW: No, I really try not to. ELW: And why is this — because it’s bad for you, or because it’s bad for them? AW: No, I just… I don’t, really, try to think about it… Somebody’s funny, I try to leave. ELW: And what do you think is the characteristic of a really nice person? Some people you obviously do like more than others. AW: Well… if they talk a lot. ELW: What, and don’t make you talk? AW: Yeah, yes, that’s a really nice person. ELW: Thank you, Andy.

A rare BBC interview with Andy Warhol (August 6, 1928—February 22, 1987)

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The only reason people do not know much is because they do not care to know. They are incurious. Incuriosity is the oddest and most foolish failing there is.

Stephen Fry (via wonderjunkieblog)

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I surprised some people when I said I was taking November off Twitter.

I’ve been using Twitter since July 2006 (user #1568!) with almost completely unbroken usage since late 2007, so that reaction is understandable—most especially from those in my life who consider me addicted to my iPhone.

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#twitter #social media #productivity #empathy #dunbar

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How do you fall in love?

You don’t fall in love like you fall in a hole. You fall like falling through space. It’s like you jump off your own private planet to visit someone else’s planet. And when you get there it all looks different: the flowers, the animals, the colours people wear. It is a big surprise falling in love because you thought you had everything just right on your own planet, and that was true, in a way, but then somebody signalled to you across space and the only way you could visit was to take a giant jump. Away you go, falling into someone else’s orbit and after a while you might decide to pull your two planets together and call it home. And you can bring your dog. Or your cat. Your goldfish, hamster, collection of stones, all your odd socks. (The ones you lost, including the holes, are on the new planet you found.)

And you can bring your friends to visit. And read your favourite stories to each other. And the falling was really the big jump that you had to make to be with someone you don’t want to be without. That’s it.

PS You have to be brave.

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Jeanette Winterson in Big Questions from Little People & Simple Answers from Great Minds

Song: “Falling” by Nitin Sawhney

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Absolutely wonderful – a stop-motion chalk love story beyond the walls by animator Joanna Lurie.

(ᔥ Andrew Sullivan)

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:) “Just now I heard the heartbeat of a tiny raindrop.”

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No, I don’t think I will kiss you, although you need kissing, badly. That’s what’s wrong with you. You should be kissed and often, and by someone who knows how.

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Margaret Mitchell in Gone With The Wind Song: “Kiss & Thrills” by Hindi Zahra

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Love is a temporary madness, it erupts like volcanoes and then subsides. And when it subsides, you have to make a decision. You have to work out whether your roots have so entwined together that it is inconceivable that you should ever part. Because this is what love is. Love is not breathlessness, it is not excitement, it is not the promulgation of promises of eternal passion, it is not the desire to mate every second minute of the day, it is not lying awake at night imagining that he is kissing every cranny of your body. No, don’t blush, I am telling you some truths. That is just being ‘in love’, which any fool can do. Love itself is what is left over when being in love has burned away, and this is both an art and a fortunate accident.

Louis de Bernières in Captain Corelli’s Mandolin Read Song: “Volcano” by Damien Rice

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When you plant lettuce, if it does not grow well, you don't blame the lettuce. You look for reasons it is not doing well. It may need fertilizer, or more water, or less sun. You never blame the lettuce. Yet if we have problems with our friends or our family, we blame the other person. But if we know how to take care of them, they will grow well, like the lettuce. Blaming has no positive effect at all, nor does trying to persuade using reason and argument. That is my experience. If you understand, and you show that you understand, you can love, and the situation will change.

Thich Nhat Hanh

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(...) I think it is only important to love the world, not to despise it, not for us to hate each other, but to be able to regard the world and ourselves and all beings with love, admiration and respect.

Siddartha, H. Hesse

#siddartha #herman hesse #love #life #hate #admiration #Om

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Four types of person you can be - George Lois

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“The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.”

Truth from writer and futurist Alvin Toffler, creator of Future Shock.

(↬ It’s Okay To Be Smart)

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Life it is not just a series of calculations and a sum total of statistics, it’s about experience, it’s about participation, it is something more complex and more interesting than what is obvious.

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