Read, read, read. Read everything — trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You’ll absorb it.
Then write. If it’s good, you’ll find out. If it’s not, throw it out of the window.
William Faulkner (via whatokay)

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Strike a sensible balance of Dionysian and Apollonian living, leaving room for a bit of Artemis and Aphrodite and definitely some Demeter, and strive to return to earthen basics, literally as much as figuratively.
Ben Wener, “Puscifer proves riveting at the Orpheum”, The Orange County Register, http://www.ocregister.com/entertainment/proves-330601-imaginative-puscifer.html

The truth is, unless you let go, unless you forgive yourself, unless you forgive the situation, unless you realize that that situation is over, you cannot move forward.
Steve MaraboliLife, the Truth, and Being Free (via creatingaquietmind)

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“The more I try and suppress my own natural oddness, the less successful I am. Don’t shy away from your own weirdness. Own your oddness.”

“The more I try and suppress my own natural oddness, the less successful I am. Don’t shy away from your own weirdness. Own your oddness.”

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I’ve spent many a night like this. Hot, I know.

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I’ve spent many a night like this. Hot, I know.

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