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“Ironically, this fixation on the positive—on what’s better, what’s superior—only serves to remind us over and over again of what we are not,”
― The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life
― The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life
“So indirectly you can say it was Miles Davis who got the Byrds started.”
― Long Time Gone: the autobiography of David Crosby
― Long Time Gone: the autobiography of David Crosby
“Well, I’m always wrong about everything, over and over and over again, and that’s why my life improves. Growth is an endlessly iterative process.”
― The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life
― The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life
“Appearances and salesmanship became more advantageous forms of expression. Knowing a lot of people superficially was more beneficial than knowing a few people closely. This is why it became the norm in Western cultures to smile and say polite things even when you don’t feel like it, to tell little white lies and agree with someone whom you don’t actually agree with.”
― The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life
― The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life
“It had been years since I’d been in a gang, but it was the one lesson Gilbert had failed to teach me. We were not invincible. So many of my old homies were dead, casualties of the life.”
― Trejo: My Life of Crime, Redemption, and Hollywood
― Trejo: My Life of Crime, Redemption, and Hollywood
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