December 2010
11 posts
Think:
“Do you take pride in your hurt?..Does it make you seem large and tragic?”
“I don’t know.”
“Well, think about it. Maybe you’re playing a part on a great stage with only yourself as audience.”
I want to indulge myself here. I won’t. I will just internally revel in these words by Steinbeck and use them as a source of pride…in not taking pride in pain and not being full of self-pity...
coldroyal-deactivated20111116-d asked: Are you a vegetarian?
"I Write Emotional Algebra."
“I am an excitable person who only understands life lyrically, musically, in whom feelings are much stronger as reason. I am so thirsty for the marvelous that only the marvelous has power over me. Anything I can not transform into something marvelous, I let go. Reality doesn’t impress me. I only believe in intoxication, in ecstasy, and when ordinary life shackles me, I escape, one way...
But with any properly raised Christian, with pride comes guilt. Or at least, the assurance that in the chaos of life nothing comes fair anyway. Or just perhaps, at the very least, or at the very end of all things, it doesn’t matter what we gain in victories or even niceties. And through it all, it wouldn’t matter if it did. At least, we’re taught, this is how you should think. A...
Whenever she felt sorry for someone, she always quickly turned American. Somewhere or somehow through the thick, she deserved her luck and they, in their pity, surely did not.
She felt a sudden, unfamiliar pang of sympathy. She’s won some, she’s lost a lot, but in the end she found herself the same, unchanged. What do you really learn in the end? You only learn the things you dedicate and promise to teach yourself, and those things, too, often barely see the light of the sun.
“They had a tool or weapon that is also nearly gone, or perhaps it is only dormant for a while. It is argued that because they believed in a just, moral God they could put their faith there and let the smaller securities take care of themselves. But I think that because they trusted themselves and respected themselves as individuals, because they knew beyond doubt that they were valuable and...
