People put up a lot of walls. Bring a sledgehammer to your life.”
— Westworld, S3E2: “The Winter Line“, HBO
Bring a Sledgehammer
Category: Commonplace
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Walt Whitman
I call to the world to distrust the accounts of my friends, but
listen to my enemies, as I myself do,
I charge you forever reject those who would expound me, for I
cannot expound myself,
I charge that there be no theory or school founded out of me,
I charge you to leave all free, as I have left all free.”
— Walt Whitman, “Myself and Me”, On the Beach at Night Alone
Joan Didion
To make an omelette, you need not only those broken eggs but someone ‘oppressed’ to break them.”
— Joan Didion, The Women’s Movement
Tortoise
Oh, you do me wrong. Would I do anything wicked? I’m a peaceful soul, bothering nobody and leading a gentle, herbivorous life. And my thoughts merely drift among the oddities and quarks of how things are (as I see them). I, humble observer of phenomena, plod along and puff my silly words into the air rather unspectacularly, I am afraid.”
— Tortoise, Godel Escher Bach, Douglas Hofstadter
Frank O’Hara
In times of crisis, we must all decide again and again whom we love.”
— Frank O’Hara, Meditations in an Emergency (via Existential Sheddings)
Frida Kahlo on What We Can Endure
At the end of the day, we can endure much more than we think we can.”
— Frida Kahlo
The Cruelest Month
April is the cruelest month, breeding
Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing
Memory and desire, stirring
Dull roots with spring rain.”
— T.S. Eliot, The Waste Land
Simone Weil on Love and Distance
To love purely is to consent to distance, it is to adore the distance between ourselves and that which we love.”
— Simone Weil, Gravity and Grace (via Existential Celestial)
Community Knows Love Beyond This Isolation // Mimi Zhu
Right // Mac Miller
Yeah, it’s been a while without your face
But I saw your picture on the wall the other day
Too much distance, too much space
You need to come back home and run along, yeah
I’m waiting for the light to change
You ask me how I’ve been and I’m good, I can’t complain
Times get harder, things get strange
All I know, I don’t want you gone
Lisa Marie Blair 