It's a funny thing coming home. Nothing changes. Everything looks the same, feels the same, even smells the same. You realize what's changed is you." ~ Eric Roth
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Go on adventures, fall asleep in the woods with friends, wander around the city at night, sit in a coffee shop on your own, write on bathroom stalls, leave notes in library books, dress up for yourself, give to others, smile a lot." ~ Emery Allen
THIS
I feel like at this point I don't trust anybody who is not openly hostile toward our president and the administration." ~ virjn on Tumblr
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This is why not giving a fuck is so key. This is why it's going to save the world. And it's going to save it by accepting that the world is totally fucked and that's all right, because it's always been that way, and always will be." ~ Mark Manson, from The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck
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There were no sex classes. No friendship classes. No classes on how to navigate a bureaucracy, build an organization, raise money, create a database, buy a house, love a child, spot a scam, talk someone out of suicide, or figure out what was important to me. Not knowing how to do these things is what messes people up in life, not whether they know algebra or can analyze literature." ~ William Upski Wimsatt
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We must never never adjust to the present coarseness of our national dialogue, with the tone set at the top. We must never regard as normal the regular and casual undermining of our democratic norms and ideals. We must never meekly accept the daily sundering of our country. The personal attacks, the threats against principles, freedoms and institution, the flagrant disregard for truth and decency, the reckless provocations, most often for the pettiest and most personal reasons, reasons having nothing whatsoever to do with the fortunes of the people that we have been elected to serve. ~ Senator Jeff Flake, (R) Arizona
I am no fan of Jeff Flake. Never have been. But it was quite heartening—not to mention just a little bit surreal—to hear him stand up in the Senate yesterday and finally say (as a Conservative) what we on the Left have been saying since last November. Trump is unfit for office. Period.
A Message to the Current RESIDENT of the White House
If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything." ~ Mark Twain
But of course we know he's incapable of telling the truth about anything.
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I loved to sleep with the window open. Rainy nights were the best of all: I would open the window and put my head on the pillow and close my eyes and feel the wind on my face and listen to the trees sway and creak." ~ Neil Gaiman
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The scar meant that I was stronger than what had tried to hurt me." ~ Jeannette Walls
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For the moment I am really very, very tired of everything—more than tired." ~ Friedrich Nietzsche
"I don't understand any of it. I never did."
In my mind, that is probably the most memorable quote from the 1970 film, Boys in the Band. It was spoken by the character Michael as he was relating his dying father's last words.
I first saw the film during my senior year in high school. I went with my then-"girlfriend," Jean. Not really having any media representations of gay life at the time, Boys in the Band—as bleak and depressing as it was—did offer a glimpse into at least some aspect of the life I was taking my first, tentative steps into—if only as a warning of what not to become. (I returned for a second screening on my own a week later, and Jean's response was, "Why?!")
But I digress.
As I've grown older, those words have rung more true with each passing year.
When I was in my 20s and 30s, I thought had it all figured out. I knew how life worked—even if it didn't always work out the way I intended. The cracks started appearing in that belief as I entered my 40s, and when cancer came out of nowhere and hit me up the side of the head mid-decade, I realized I didn't know shit.
When you're twenty-one, life is a roadmap. It's only when you get to be twenty-five or so that you begin to suspect you've been looking at the map upside down, and not until you're forty are you entirely sure. By the time you're sixty, take it from me, you're…lost." ~ Stephen King
Guess I'm not the only one…
Thought For The Day
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Working hard for something we don't care about is called stress; working hard for something we love is called passion." ~ Simon Sinek
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We live in the timeline God abandoned." ~ Anonymous
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I don't mind that people wallow in ignorance, I just wish they wouldn't splash so much." ~ Anonymous
And This Government Is Failing Miserably
The moral test of government is how that government treats those who are in the dawn of life, the children; those who are in the twilight of life, the elderly; those who are in the shadows of life, the sick, the needy, and the handicapped." ~ Hubert H. Humphrey
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The world will not be destroyed by those who do evil, but by those who watch them without doing anything." ~Albert Einstein
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You don't always win your battles, but it's good to know you fought." ~ Lauren Bacall
Art Imitates Life
But America, too, can take issue with a woman of power. It finds ways of cutting her down. Of punishing her for her daring to be. And our girl, after a while, even she forgot there's a queen inside. And there is no end to the cruelty of men threatened by strong women." ~ Mr. Nancy, American Gods Season 1 Episode 8
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For my Bubba…
I like you to be exactly the way that you are, because in all my experience, I have never known anyone like you." ~ Tennessee Williams
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In no particular order, America has overcome a civil war, Adolf Hitler, a depression, and even disco. This illegitimate occupation of the White House by a confirmed traitor is a whole new kind of challenge for us. But we can, and we will, overcome this. In the end, the will of the people will propel the Constitution to propel Donald Trump out on his ass. When his degenerative brain disease finishes him off in a few years, he'll either die a lonely miserable broke man, or he'll die in a prison cell. We're in the fight of our lives. But Trump is going to lose this battle, and America is going to win. We always have, and we always will." ~ Bill Palmer, The Palmer Report
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Trumpsters, are you tired of being played for fools yet?
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Oh, there are a lot of lousy people in the world. Also, a lot of terrific people. You've gotta remember that, and you've got to move in the right circles. I have days where I just want everyone to go fuck themselves or walk off a cliff, but I only say that to myself, and I smile and I walk home and I have some tea, I talk to Garson [Kanin, her husband], I might take a nap. Then I wake up and I write, and in writing, I wipe away all the unpleasantness of the day, of the people, of the city, whatever. We have it in our power to overcome assholes, and I think we have them thrown into our path to see if we have the chops to handle them. Handle them." ~ Ruth Gordon, American Actress, 1984
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Always ahead of his time.
The far right cannot discount the fact that sitting in their parlor is the Ku Klux Klan, the American Nazi Party, every racist group in the United States and not a few of some Fascist orders that have scrambled their way up from the sewers to a position of new respectability." ~ Rod Serling, 1960
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Donald Trump's effect on the Republican party is like what would happen if cancer got cancer." ~ John Hartzell
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Eventually soulmates meet, for they have the same hiding place." ~ Robert Brault
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A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and gets to bed at night, and in between he does what he wants to do." ~ Bob Dylan