Sometimes you gotta dive into the pool to keep your head right. And sometimes you gotta climb out. — Brendan McGinley
keep true to the dreams of thy youth. (via iamlowercasepeople)
For the record, it’s “adore you.” But I manage to sneak some other things in there, too.
On a temporary Tumblr hiatus to try this competing service I found.
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Dissatisfaction is a significant key to quality. “Art,” said the American sculptor John Chamberlain, “is basically made by dissatisfied people who are willing to find some means to relieve the dissatisfaction.” In the midst of dissatisfaction ways are found. Without dissatisfaction it is swiftly possible to fall in love with your own mediocrity. Utter dissatisfaction can be liberating. “If the wine is not good,” said Michelangelo, “then throw it out. — Dissatisfaction (Robert Genn) - via Communicatrix on Twitter
I know there has to be something with more gravity that I can do, here, but I just want all hundred-someodd of you to know that this Spock was the best cat he could be for all his years.
The job of a writer is to write. Anything else a writer does is entirely on his or her free time and subject to his or her own whim.
— John Scalzi
I was struck a few years ago when a friend of ours — an actress — was having dinner here with us and a couple of other writers. It suddenly occurred to me that she was the only person in the room who couldn’t plan what she was going to do. She had to wait for someone to ask her, which is a strange way to live — Joan Didion on make-believe | Tomorrow Museum
“Student Project” is a legitimate aesthetic.