I’m For The Plurality Of Positions. Can We Launch The Party Of Those Who Are Not Certain Of Being Right?

“Let it stand. Let the whole damned thing stand, for better or worse. Don’t go back and rewrite, trying to make a masterpiece out of everything. Leave it alone. Leave it the fuck alone.”

Anne Sexton, from an interview conducted c. June 1974

“You were a dream. Then a reality. Now a memory.”

— Iain Thomas, The City Rises and Falls

my esteemed rival,

You’ll understand why storms are named after people.

F. Scott Fitzgerald (via quotemadness)

“What is it that brings on these moods of yours? Nothing mysterious: the ordinary pain of being alive.”

— Charles Baudelaire, The Flowers of Evil

“I don’t think I could love you so much if you had nothing to complain of and nothing to regret. I don’t like people who have never fallen or stumbled. Their virtue is lifeless and of little value. Life hasn’t revealed its beauty to them.”

— Boris Pasternak, Doctor Zhivago (via the-book-diaries)

Danez Smith, Don't Call Us Dead

Since I wasn’t consulted at the time of the creation of the world, I reserve for myself the right to have my own opinion about it.

(Fyodor Dostoevsky)

“Life just hurts people and hurts people, until finally it hurts them so that they can’t be hurt ever any more. That’s the last and worst thing it does.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned

Casablanca (1942), dir. Michael Curtiz