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"You can't just turn on creativity like a faucet. You have to be in the right mood."
"What mood is that?"
"Last-minute panic."
From Calvin and Hobbes
From Calvin and Hobbes
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"You're really so desperate to be someone's hero. Then, even though it seems impossible, you must find a way to do what you want.
"Isn't that what makes the hero a hero? To want something and to do whatever it takes to have it: Power or glory, absolution or happiness, for yourself or someone else, justice, balance, 'the right thing'.
"But harbor no illusions. The only person you're doing any favours for is yourself.
"The hero, the most selfish person in the whole world."
from HERO the web comics: It's very beautiful and thoughtful. Sadly it hasn't been updated since 2018
"Isn't that what makes the hero a hero? To want something and to do whatever it takes to have it: Power or glory, absolution or happiness, for yourself or someone else, justice, balance, 'the right thing'.
"But harbor no illusions. The only person you're doing any favours for is yourself.
"The hero, the most selfish person in the whole world."
from HERO the web comics: It's very beautiful and thoughtful. Sadly it hasn't been updated since 2018
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"I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo."So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”
- Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien
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“Bad writing is more than a matter of shit syntax and faulty observation; bad writing usually arises from a stubborn refusal to tell stories about what people actually do― to face the fact, let us say, that murderers sometimes help old ladies cross the street.”
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
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“I said I would protect you, so I will spend the rest of my life protecting you. In the same vein, if I said I liked you, then I will spend this whole lifetime liking you. Whether you hit me or scold me, I will never give up.” Due to the height difference, I couldn’t help but look up at him slightly, “Even if I get close to you, I won’t fall into the abyss, and I won’t be in harm’s way. However, if you remain as you are then you leave me no other choice, and who knows what I might do then. If in the future I end up jumping off a building or lying on a train track because of love, then that would be a losing trade for you.”
~ Lu Feng to Sheng Min Ou in Flying Gulls Never Land.
Flying Gulls Never Land is a dark BL Chinese web novel. Lu Feng is obsessive about his adopted brother Sheng Min Ou, who has to fake being a normal person throughout his life. However, I really like how brave Lu Feng is with his feeling
~ Lu Feng to Sheng Min Ou in Flying Gulls Never Land.
Flying Gulls Never Land is a dark BL Chinese web novel. Lu Feng is obsessive about his adopted brother Sheng Min Ou, who has to fake being a normal person throughout his life. However, I really like how brave Lu Feng is with his feeling
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“Whenever you feel like criticizing anyone … just remember that all the people in this world haven’t had the advantages that you’ve had.”
The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald
I saw this quote in another novel and find this very sensible advice.
Quotes about authentic identity by Oscar Wilde
"Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth."
Wilde, Oscar. “The True Function and Value of Criticism.” The Nineteenth Century, 1890.
Perhaps one never seems so much at one’s ease as when one has to play a part.
Wilde, Oscar, and Oscar Wilde. Picture of Dorian Gray. Penguin Books, 2020.
Sir Robert Chiltern: You prefer to be natural?
Mrs Cheveley: Sometimes. But it is such a very difficult pose to keep up.
Wilde, Oscar. An Ideal Husband. Mint Editions, 2021.
It is tragic how few people ever “possess their souls” before they die. “Nothing is more rare in any man,” says Emerson, “than an act of his own.” It is quite true. Most people are other people. Their thoughts are some one else’s opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.
Wilde, Oscar. De Profundis. Mint Editions, 2021.