Lauren Crichton
@laurencrichton
@laurencrichton
"That for which we find words is something that is already dead in our hearts. There is always a kind of contempt in the act of speaking."
— Nietzche
I disagree with this.
Directness can be a compliment. You’re saying, I know you can handle this.
— Haley Nahman
“Tact is not the quality by which you often please, but by which you seldom offend.”
— Alice Wellington Rollins
“In an expanding universe time is on the side of the outcast”
— Quentin Crisp via Laura Marling
“I love it when smart people explain things to me.”
— Laura Marling
“Raise your words, not voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.” - Rumi
I must lie down where all the ladders start
In the foul blood and bone shop of the heart
W.B.Yeats
“I want to do a different thing. I want to actually improve over time. I want to develop my own takes. I want to understand everything. And this is how the podcast improves over the long run too - by me becoming smarter and learning more shit. That is the underlying beta. Everything else is a temporary benefit at best (and more often, a total
... See moreEvery time I cut something, I'll never delete it. I just copy and paste it under a line at the bottom of the document. That's how I know I'm making progress – the graveyard gets larger and larger and the only things that are left alive are the things I didn't think I should kill.