things I have learned from school while doing a final piece
"If you are a very imaginative person, you can’t help but—when you’re looking forward to something—flesh out every single detail of it, like, “Oh, my ex-girlfriend’s going to come to town and we’re going to hang out, and it’s going to be perfect, and it’s going to resolve all the things we never talked about, and we’re going to have sex, and it’s going to be beautiful and great and perfect, and totally like a good Death Cab For Cutie song.” Then when it actually happens, it’s just again, like a [blows raspberry].
So I really try to reconcile that in my own life by going, “Well, maybe you’re free to imagine things and expect what you want, but maybe when they don’t reflect exactly what your imagination laid out for it, maybe you should just be happy with the thing that happened, instead of giving it a C- grade because it didn’t measure up to what your imagination established.” I think that’s a theme I am constantly struggling with, and that the main character is struggling with in the book. I have all of these expectations that I’ve been programmed with through loving books about dragons and stuff, and why isn’t my life like a book with dragons in it? Well, because dragons are fake. But just because dragons are fake and you still expect a dragon, doesn’t mean your life isn’t worthwhile, or an adventure in its own way."
So I really try to reconcile that in my own life by going, “Well, maybe you’re free to imagine things and expect what you want, but maybe when they don’t reflect exactly what your imagination laid out for it, maybe you should just be happy with the thing that happened, instead of giving it a C- grade because it didn’t measure up to what your imagination established.” I think that’s a theme I am constantly struggling with, and that the main character is struggling with in the book. I have all of these expectations that I’ve been programmed with through loving books about dragons and stuff, and why isn’t my life like a book with dragons in it? Well, because dragons are fake. But just because dragons are fake and you still expect a dragon, doesn’t mean your life isn’t worthwhile, or an adventure in its own way."
— DC PIerson. (via twiststreet)
"Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing."
— Benjamin Franklin (via blua)
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"If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more, to dream all the time."
— Marcel Proust (via in-the-middle-of-a-daydream)
(via colourthysoul)
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"Every day we should hear at least one little song, read one good poem, see one exquisite picture, and, if possible, speak a few sensible words."
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (via aufwaerts)
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"Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little."
— Edmund Burke (via liquidlightandrunningtrees)
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I recommend combing through the American Splendor tag for anyone who’s in a foul way
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"The more I thought, the more I felt like crying. Life seemed so sweet and so sad, and so hard to let go of in the end. But hey, man, every day is a brand new deal, right? Just keep on working and something’s bound to turn up."
— American Splendor (via hdcinema)
I always liked this
“If this scene sucks it’s because you suck”
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