How Do You Sustain Morale During A Long Project Lutheran Guilt How Do You Sustain Morale During A Long

“At the trial of God, we will ask: why did you allow all this? / And the answer will be an echo: why did you allow all this?”

— Ilya Kaminsky, from “A City Like a Guillotine Shivers on Its Way to the Neck,” Deaf Republic

There are two kinds of people in this world: Those who believe there are two kinds of people in this world and those who are smart enough to know better.

Tom Robbins, Still Life with Woodpecker (via the-book-diaries)

Sophocles, from "Electra: A Tragedy," translated by Anne Carson

Looking for the Stranger by Alice Kaplan

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“I should call you ghost before I call you father. Ain’t a ghost someone that came before you that keeps haunting you even when you never see them?”

—

Ephraim Nehemiah, “Jesus Christ Tries Asking His Father Questions Again”

Performing at Rustbelt 2018 in Detroit, MI. HELP SUPPORT BUTTON POETRY.

"I've never been lonely. I've been in a room -- I've felt suicidal. I've been depressed. I've felt awful -- awful beyond all -- but I never felt that one other person could enter that room and cure what was bothering me...or that any number of people could enter that room. In other words, loneliness is something I've never been bothered with because I've always had this terrible itch for solitude. It's being at a party, or at a stadium full of people cheering for something, that I might feel loneliness. I'll quote Ibsen, "The strongest men are the most alone." I've never thought, "Well, some beautiful blonde will come in here and give me a fuck-job, rub my balls, and I'll feel good." No, that won't help. You know the typical crowd, "Wow, it's Friday night, what are you going to do? Just sit there?" Well, yeah. Because there's nothing out there. It's stupidity. Stupid people mingling with stupid people. Let them stupidify themselves. I've never been bothered with the need to rush out into the night. I hid in bars, because I didn't want to hide in factories. That's all. Sorry for all the millions, but I've never been lonely. I like myself. I'm the best form of entertainment I have. Let's drink more wine!" - Charles Bukowski

Love and Leashes (2022) dir. Hyeon-jin Park

“Consciousness is a message scribbled in the dark.”

— Vladimir Nabokov, Pale Fire (via the-book-diaries)

March 29, 1966 Anne Sexton: A Self-Portrait in Letters First published: 1977

every epigraph in The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt