February 2012
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Sarah Kay: How Many Lives Can You Live
It was never a question of if I was gonna get to do something, so much as a question of when. I was sure if I was going to do everything, then it probably meant I had to move pretty quickly cause there’s a lot of stuff I needed to do. So, my life was constantly in a state of rushing. I was always scared that I was falling behind, and since I grew up in New York City, rushing was pretty...
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It takes a long time to become young
– Picasso
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A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is...
– Oscar Wilde (via audreylostinparis)
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New York, give me snow.
Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.
– Salvador Dalí
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December 2011
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thoughts of bildungsroman at dawn
Today I woke up at 4:30am, went straight to Netflix, watched The Virgin Suicides and Thirteen, then went back to sleep. I realize this is going to be a strange day.
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“To whom shall I hire myself out?
What beast must I adore?
What holy image is attacked?
What Hearts shall I break?
What lie must I maintain?
In what blood tread?”
-Rimbaud
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Suppose you stood facing a wall of photographs
from your unlived life
as you stand looking at these stills from the unseen film
Yourself against a wall curiously stuccoed
Yourself in the doorway of a kind of watchman’s hut
Yourself at a window signalling to people you haven’t met yet
Yourself in unfamiliar clothes with the same eyes
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