“That’s the best revenge of all: happiness. Nothing drives people crazier than seeing someone have a good fucking life.”
[Chuck Palahniuk]
Now, I don’t have anyone in particular who is deserving of my revenge, but I think this will be my motto of 2011 anyway.
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“I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.” —Douglas Adams
Will always be one of my favorites. And yay weekend! It’s amazing how productive a person can be when they aren’t hungover…
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“The Internet is like alcohol in some sense. It accentuates what you would do anyway. If you want to be a loner, you can be more alone. If you want to connect, it makes it easier to connect.”
–Esther Dyson, Interview in Time Magazine, October 2005
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One of my all-time favorites:
“Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to be always part of unanimity.” [Christopher Morley]
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So for this past week, I’ve become addicted to a new (to me) blog: http://www.frkncngz.com. What does frkncngz mean? I have no idea. But what I do know is that this blog has all of these quotes and sometimes pictures that are either funny or emo or inspiring…all of my favorite things! I think I’ve spent at least an hour a day for the past week reading the archives, which I probably shouldn’t admit publicly. But whatever. Here are some of the ones that I love:
Wonderful, right?
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Found this over on Julia Allison’s blog (huge fan of hers, as I’ve mentioned before):
And I liked it. That’s all.
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Just stumbled across this quote on the blog of a pretty freaking hilarious and wacky 13-year-old (no, really, check her out), and I liked it, so now you get to read it:
“Everybody has a secret world inside of them. All of the people of the world, I mean everybody. No matter how dull and boring they are on the outside, inside them they’ve all got unimaginable, magnificent, wonderful, stupid, amazing worlds. Not just one world. Hundreds of them. Thousands maybe.” [Neil Gaiman]
Apparently it’s in a comic book series called The Sandman, and though it seems like a pretty unusual quote to come from a comic book, and though the cover of said comic book is a leetle terrifying, I’m intrigued.
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This quote is a little touchy-feely, but it really struck me. It reminds me of something my roommate loves to say: “You’re the master of your own destiny.” That’s cheesy too, but it’s damn true, and we can all use the reminder every now and again.
“Surrendering to the absolute truth that you are responsible for everything that you have in your life is my favorite principle. This one offers you total freedom. No one is responsible for how you feel about ANYTHING; only you are responsible. You’re the only one responsible for how you respond and you can choose to be despairing and join the club of whiners OR you can choose to discover something about yourself that you may have overlooked before. Something that was keeping your ‘good’ apart from you. “
[Kyle King via Mary Rambin]
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Did you know his last name was spelled without a ‘t,’ by the way? Crazy, man. Anyway:
“All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn’t hurt.”
Or cold leftover chicken parm eaten while standing in your kitchen. Whatever works.
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A hearty SWTCTW congratulations to Floridian Tom Grizzard, who won this year’s prestigious Ernest Hemingway look-alike contest in Key West. It’s his eighth time competing. Eighth time’s the charm, buddy! He beat out 141 other Ernests for his prize, which is–well, come to think of it, it’s not stated in the article. But I’m sure it’s AWESOME. Maybe it’s the baller medallion hanging from his noble neck? Where can I get me one of those?
And I thought this picture of all the Ernests was fantastic. So much passion! Got me all fired up!
But besides applauding Tom Grizzard for his innate, genetic inclination towards resembling a Nobel prize winning author, I wanted to post some quotes from our friend Ernest.
Okay, that’s enough. Enjoy.
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six words to change the world. 