March 2012
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“I felt a tremendous distance between myself and everything real.”
– Hunter S. Thompson (via suzywire)
Accordages.
lameteodujour:
Tracey Emin - Louise Bourgeois Collaboration: “Do Not Abandon Me”.
Tout n’est pas si facile. Tout ne tient qu’à un fil.
January 2012
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December 2011
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“…
maviyi soruyordun, gözlerimden yüzüme yayılan maviyi mi
bir renk değildir...”
– Edip Cansever (via corcianna)
November 2011
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September 2011
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“What a fine weather today! Can’t choose whether to drink tea or to hang myself.”
– A. P. Chekhov (via narcosis)
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Blitz: Why did you like to feel strange?
Morrissey: I don't know whether I liked being strange in the way that you're implying... I felt strange because I was never impressed by the simple things that other people seem to enjoy.
Blitz: So you fell in love with images.
Morrissey: It wasn't really my fault that images rather than people appealed to me. There were a lot of people about... I went to school and briefly to work, I did see people. I lived on a heavily populated council estate. There were people all around. But no one was bothered to penetrate this great wall there was between us. Yes, I was selfish. But I was also, and remain so, the sort of person that not many people want to know. It's hard to believe!
Blitz: You were forced to construct your own reality?
Morrissey: Yes. This took me a long time. But more importantly, I think that when someone is not at all popular, for whatever reasons, one tends to develop certain forms of survival. A survival which excludes friends, which excludes social activities. That in a sense is how I organised my life. If you cannot impress people simply by being part of the great fat human race, then you really do have to develop other skills. And if you don't impress people by the way you look, then you really do have to develop other skills. And if you are now going to ask is everything I did just a way to gain some form of attention, well that's not entirely true. It is in a small way, but that's in the very nature of being alive.
Blitz: Wanting to be loved?
Morrissey: To be seen, above all else. I wanted to be noticed, and the way I lived and do live has a desperate neurosis about it because of that. All humans need a degree of attention. Some people get it at the right time, when they are 13 or 14, people get loved at the right stages. If this doesn't happen, if the love isn't there, you can quite easily just fade away. This could have happened to me easily. Several times I was close to... fading away. It doesn't give me great comfort to talk about it. I do not wish to relieve those experiences. But I came close... In a sense I always felt that being troubled as a teenager was par for the course. I wasn't sure that I was dramatically unique. I knew other people who were at the time desperate and suicidal. They despised life and detested all other living people. In a way that made me feel a little bit secure. Because I thought, well, maybe I'm not so intense after all. Of course, I was. I despised practically everything about human life, which does limit one's weekend activities.
Blitz: What else was there?
Morrissey: Nothing. Books. Television. Records. Overall, it's a vast wasteland.
(1988)
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“I used to think I was the strangest person in the world but then I thought,...”
– Frida Kahlo (via suzywire)
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“I am a forest, and a night of dark trees: but he who is not afraid of my...”
– Nietzsche (via nocternity)
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