"he smiled understandingly-much more than understandingly. it was one of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it, that you may come across four or five times in life. it faced--or seemed to face--the whole external world for an instant, and then concentrated on you with an irresistible prejudice in your favor. it understood you just as far as you wanted to be understood, believed in you as you would like to believe in yourself, and assured you that it had precisely the impression of you that, at your best, you hoped to convey."
It is smpossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all - in which case, you fail by default - J.K. Rowling
"The end of paralysis, I was a statuette Now I'm drunk as hell on a piano bench And when I press the keys it all gets reversed The sound of loneliness makes me happier"
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-f. scott fitzgerald in the great gatsby.
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Now I'm drunk as hell on a piano bench
And when I press the keys it all gets reversed
The sound of loneliness makes me happier"
- Bright Eyes
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I said no; if he made me in his image then he's a failure too." - Laura Marling (Failure)
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