"The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side."
—James Baldwin (American novelist and playwright, 1924-1987)
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“After everything, you are still growing and new mornings will continue to find you.”
- Morgan Harper Nichols
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Another Quote Because She Is Too Funny
“I’m fucking horny and you left me for tumblr?”
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“Where do I put this sadness I feel? Where does it go? I know that it exists, but I don’t know where. It is simply something I have to carry, and my body is burdened by the weight.”
I feel like I am cradling myself in my hands and saying I’m a good person. There is just this baby I’m swaddling that is exactly like me, and she doesn’t know anything about the world. I feel like both a baby and the person desperately trying to make it stop crying.
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"If the room is smoky, if only moderately, I will stay; if there is too much smoke I will go. Remember this, keep a firm hold on it, the door is always open."
—Epictetus (Greek stoic philosopher, 50-135)
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"Morning broke with its usual quietness, and a soft river of light squats upon the veil of day. Today begs for tenderness and I submit to the ease of its blissful grace."
- Leonie Anderson
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“The worst thing in the world can happen, but the next day the sun will come up. And you will eat your toast. And you will drink your tea.”
— Rhian Ellis, After Life
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Be the con you want to be.
Congratulations, confused, concerning, concrete, confuddle, con—
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