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❀ 伍花蕾 ❀
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"I began reading this, but if I’m being completely honest, I feel like my brain started melting only a couple pages in… this will definitely be something that I juggle with other books 📚😵💫" — Mar 20, 2026 01:50PM
"I began reading this, but if I’m being completely honest, I feel like my brain started melting only a couple pages in… this will definitely be something that I juggle with other books 📚😵💫" — Mar 20, 2026 01:50PM
the problem with trying to make time for everything that feels important—or just for enough of what feels important—is that you definitely never will. The reason isn’t that you haven’t yet discovered the right time management tricks or
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“It is simply this: do not tire, never lose interest, never grow indifferent—lose your invaluable curiosity and you let yourself die. It's as simple as that.”
― Fair Play
― Fair Play
“The only important elements in any society are the artistic and the criminal, because they alone, by questioning the society’s values, can force it to change.”
― Empire Star
― Empire Star
“Guilt is not a response to anger; it is a response to one’s own actions or lack of action. If it leads to change then it can be useful, since it is then no longer guilt but the beginning of knowledge. Yet all too often, guilt is just another name for impotence, for defensiveness destructive of communication; it becomes a device to protect ignorance and the continuation of things the way they are, the ultimate protection for changelessness.”
― Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches
― Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches
“Should I kill myself, or have a cup of coffee? But in the end one needs more courage to live than to kill himself.”
― A Happy Death
― A Happy Death
“To me, bad taste is what entertainment is all about. If someone vomits watching one of my films, it's like getting a standing ovation. But one must remember that there is such a thing as good bad taste and bad bad taste. it's easy to disgust someone; I could make a ninety-minute film of people getting their limbs hacked off, but this would only be bad bad taste and not very stylish or original. To understand bad taste one must have very good taste. Good bad taste can be creatively nauseating but must, at the same time, appeal to the especially twisted sense of humor, which is anything but universal.”
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❀ 伍花蕾 ❀’s 2025 Year in Books
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Art, Biography, Comics, Graphic novels, History, Humor and Comedy, Manga, Memoir, Music, Non-fiction, Philosophy, Poetry, Psychology, Science, and Self help
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