I’m not going to be one of those people who sits around talking about what they’re going to do or become. I’m just going to do it. Imagining the future is kind of nostalgia. You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth, thinking about how you’ll escape it one day, and how amazing it will be, and imagining the future keeps you going, but you never do it. You just use the future to escape the present.
It is sometimes a mistake to climb; it is always a mistake never even to make the attempt. If you do not climb you will not fall. This is true. But is it that bad to fail, that hard to fall?
The more people say nice things about me, the more I feel it’s false. Or the more I look for the things that are bad about me, and think those are the real ones. I could overhear somebody say something about me, and it destroys me for a week. Yet I could win an award or hear nice reviews and it feels meaningless.” Take the National Board of Review prize: “It was great. But then I immediately found some reason to be miserable again that night. It’s terrible. I’m able to manipulate things into being bad, which is not a healthy way to live but that’s where I’m at now.
But who can say what’s best? That’s why you need to grab whatever chance you have of happiness where you find it, and not worry about other people too much. My experience tells me that we get no more than two or three such chances in a life time, and if we let them go, we regret it for the rest of our lives.
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Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami
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Sasha Pivovarova in Yohji Yamamoto & Marc Jacobs
Ph. by Daniel Jackson | i-D #296 September 2006
Writing is like sex. First you do it for love, then you do it for your friends, and then you do it for money.
Learn all the rules, Master them, then break all of them
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Vince Laforet (Photofocus Podcast 67)
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Mori girls are all about seeking tiny miracles and returning to a simpler, more aesthetic way of life, even if they inhabit the bustling, upward mobility of New York City. Mori girls seek to remind us to just enjoy life, which is part of why I am attracted to the idea of this being a “thing,” an intellectual and aesthetic subculture. And yes, a lot of it is about the look, as Fashion always is. But so much of it is about feeling comfortable in your own skin, and in your own garments.
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Mori Girls: A Declaration of Love, via the BUST Magazine Blog. (via vanillachailatte)
I’m glad someone wrote about this. I was telling a friend the same thing last year, about going beyond the genre, form and subculture, and not forcing yourself into it. Great find!
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