one liners

for the growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs.

middlemarch by george elliot

the ideas already exist the person who surfaces them at the right moment in the right context with a freshly curated set of words and shapes earns the glory of invention

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Embarassment is an underexplored emotion. Go out there and make a fool of yourself. - Austin Butler’s friend lol

Austin Butler’s Most Embarrassing Take | SubwayTakes Uncut

if you kill a cockroach you are a hero, if you kill a butterfly, you are evil. morals have aesthetic criteria. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche

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“We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down.” -Kurt Vonnegut

"What information, if we had it, would make this decision easy?"

Then: "What's the quickest way we can get that information?"

(Via Matt Lerner)

i’m combing through the braids of lies

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