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Unexpected intrusions of beauty

Unexpected intrusions of beauty. That is what life is.

― Saul Bellow

New Year

It’s a new year. You can be anything you want. You can do anything you want. You have nothing to lose. And everything to gain.

Clayton Cubitt

Advice on Life

Hello, babies. Welcome to Earth. It’s hot in the summer and cold in the winter. It’s round and wet and crowded. At the outside, babies, you’ve got about a hundred years here. There’s only one rule that I know of, babies—God damn it, you’ve got to be kind.

— Kurt Vonnegut

More Random Quotes

A man’s only as old as the woman he feels.

— Groucho Marx

Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.

— Oscar Wilde (via Clayton Cubitt)

Acknowledge that you are worthy of receiving something so that love becomes authentically mutual and reciprocal.

Cornel West (via Clayton Cubitt)

Quotes and Pretty Girls

Lea dancing to Since Antarctica

I’m a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.

- Thomas Jefferson (via holly)

If you go home with someone, and they don’t have any books, don’t fuck them.

- John Waters

Design is

Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.

- Steve Jobs (via Kelowna)

Essentials for Happiness

3 grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love & something to hope for.

- J. Addison (via Holly)

Artist and Audience

To an artist, first an audience is a life jacket, then it is a dinner jacket, then it is a straightjacket.

to all the devils…

My New Year’s Eve Toast: to all the devils, lusts, passions, greeds, envies, loves, hates, strange desires, enemies ghostly and real, the army of memories, with which I do battle — may they never give me peace.

Patricia Highsmith, New Years Eve, 1947

Heart and Mind

If you want to know where your heart is, look where your mind goes when it wanders.

- via Holly
Seems very fitting right now. *shrug*