When I Was A Boy Of 14, My Father Was So Ignorant I Could Hardly Stand To Have The Old Man Around. But

“When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.”

— Mark Twain

“Good writers have two things in common: they prefer to be understood rather than admired; and they do not write for knowing and over-acute readers.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

spent too long thinking I’m ugly … so much brain space… like when mitski said “your body doesn’t exist to be looked at. it exists to DO, go places, let you exist! imo I don’t wanna waste all my time preserving it for viewing”

August 17, 1924 Journals of Anais Nin 1923-1927 [volume 3]

that james baldwin quote where he says, “it took many years of vomiting up all the filth i’d been taught about myself, and half-believed, before i was able to walk on the earth as though i had a right to be here.”