Emily Dickinson, In A Letter To Joseph A. Sweetser, Wr. C. Summer 1858

Thief (1981), dir. Michael Mann

It's silly not to hope. It's a sin he thought.

- Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea

“How do we forgive ourselves for all of the things we did not become?”

— Doc Luben, “14 Lines from Love Letters or Suicide Notes”

“Everyone is an artist” (2015). 

Kawasaki City, Kanagawa by Spanish street artist Pejac 

via spoon-tamago

Getting ready for some shooting with AlexCollar

Can you guess what was prepared for me?

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“How do we forgive ourselves for all of the things we did not become?”

— Doc Luben, “14 Lines from Love Letters or Suicide Notes”

“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

Scars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real.

Cormac McCarthy (via quotemadness)

“Life must go on; I forget just why.” - Edna St. Vincent Millay, Lament

Ocean Vuong, The Weight of Our Living: On Hope, Fire Escapes, and Visible Desperation