#lt

I think when I began, I played distortion more than the guitar. The results of my strumming. Now I play the twang of the string, which is a lot closer to the source of the sound making. ↗

— Ian Williams

#closer #distortion #guitar #i #i think

Success is not determined by the outcome. The outcome is the result of having already decided that you are successful to begin with. ↗

— T.F. Hodge

#courage #decisions #goals #outcome #quotes

Those who live in the country get idiotic in time, without noticing it, for a while they think it's original and good for their health, but life in the country is not original at all, for anyone who wasn't born in and for the country it shows a lack of taste and is only harmful to their health. The people who go walking in the country walk right into their own funeral in the country and at the very least they lead a grotesque existence which leads them first into idiocy, then into an absurd death. ↗

— Thomas Bernhard

#fate #health #provincialism #death

The clearest way to see through a culture is to attend to its tools for conversation. ↗

— Neil Postman

#culture #media #age

Relationship is thus always slavery of a kind, which leaves a residue of guilt. ↗

— Ernest Becker

#relationships #death

A feeble body makes a feeble mind. I do not know what doctors cure us of, but I know this: they infect us with very deadly diseases, cowardice, timidity, credulity, the fear of death. What matter if they make the dead walk, we have no need of corpses; they fail to give us men, and it is men we need. ↗

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#doctors #health #death

Fame is simply an imbalance between inbound and outbound attention. ↗

— Clay Shirky

#entertainment #popculture #communication

adulthood is depressing. for me at least. i cried at the death of every illusion harder than i cried at the death of friends. ↗

— Darnell Lamont Walker

#cried #depression #friends #death

We keep on being told that religion, whatever its imperfections, at least instills morality. On every side, there is conclusive evidence that the contrary is the case and that faith causes people to be more mean, more selfish, and perhaps above all, more stupid. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#cruelty #ethics #ethics-in-religion #morality #morality-without-religion

Being shaken to death by a Hawaiian tourist look-alike was not how Arena imagined her death. ↗

— Lynn Blackmar

#adventure #espionage #spy #surfing #teenage-spies