You Won’t Be Alone (2022)

“walking down your authentic path can be one of the loneliest roads to travel on because the longer you’re on it, the more you realize that only a select few will be compatible with who you are with no mask on.”

— billy chapata

SARAH SNOOK at the 2022 HBO Post-Emmy Awards Reception in California. By Mark Leibowitz.

Too much joy, I swear, is lost in our desperation to keep it.

Ocean Vuong, On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous

Jonathan Safran Foer

Madeline Miller, Circe

Richard Siken, Crush

“If only we’d stop trying to be happy we’d have a pretty good time.”

Edith Wharton

Slavoj Žižek

Richard Siken, Crush

“These are the days that must happen to you.”

— Walt Whitman (via perfectquote)

Oh no, oh no, he is seducing me with his deep passion for his field of study and his genuine joy at teaching people about it

Be who you are, even if it kills you.

It will. Over and over again, Even as you live.

Break my heart, why don’t you?

— Joy Harjo, from "Break My Heart," Weaving Sundown in a Scarlet Light

Thomas Bernhard - Drei Tage(1970) dir. Ferry Radax

The dream

"James Baldwin, The Art of Fiction No. 78", An Interview by Jordan Elgrably

“However mean your life is, meet it and live it; do not shun it and call it hard names. It is not so bad as you think. It looks poorest when you are richest. The fault-finder will find faults even in paradise. Love your life, difficult as it is...

You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. Fools stand on their island of opportunities and look toward another land. There is no other land; there is no other life but this.”

~ Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)