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it is not vladimir nabokov's fault that you're an idiot
getting painting ideas from people's Flickr albums
yale 2007
“Everybody has experienced the defeat of their lives. Nobody has a life that worked out the way they wanted it to work out. We all begin as the hero of our own dramas, in centre stage, and inevitably life moves us out of centre stage, defeats the hero, overturns the plot and the strategy and we’re left on the sidelines, wondering why we no longer have a part, or want a part, in the whole damn thing. So everybody’s experienced this. When it’s presented to us sweetly, the feeling goes from heart to heart and we feel less isolated and we feel part of the great human chain, which is really involved with the recognition of defeat.”
— Leonard Cohen on why people enjoy listening to melancholy songs (from a BBC radio interview in 2007)
Did u like your mother better or your father growing up ?
I liked the wind in my hair best
One ugly man is worth a thousand conventionally attractive guys
Bonus:
Mark Rothko at Yale, 1923, Rothko Family Archives
“I don’t look like this”
(new scan)
ACAB includes Hegelians and other dogmatists
[wittgenstein voice] i just think words mean things
not me being as wise as a serpent and as harmless as a dove
hi I'm the eraserhead baby can you send me $200
Orion Carloto