“There is no escape. You can’t be a vagabond and an artist and still be a solid citizen, a wholesome, upstanding man. You want to get drunk, so you have to accept the hangover. You say yes to the sunlight and pure fantasies, so you have to say yes to the filth and the nausea. Everything is within you, gold and mud, happiness and pain, the laughter of childhood and the apprehension of death. Say yes to everything, shirk nothing. Don’t try to lie to yourself. You are not a solid citizen. You are not a Greek. You are not harmonious, or the master of yourself. You are a bird in the storm. Let it storm! Let it drive you!”
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“There were two ways to be happy: improve your reality, or lower your expectations”
― Nineteen Minutes
― Nineteen Minutes
“I am constantly torn between killing myself and killing everyone around me.”
― Will Grayson, Will Grayson
― Will Grayson, Will Grayson
“While I am alive, I intend to live. (Everett Ruess to his friend Bill, Mar 9, 1931, p 31)”
― Everett Ruess: A Vagabond for Beauty & Wilderness Journals
― Everett Ruess: A Vagabond for Beauty & Wilderness Journals
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