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On that trip I learnt something very important. Escape through travel works. Almost from the moment I boarded my flight, life in England became meaningless. Seat-belt signs lit up, problems switched off. Broken armrests took precedence over broken hearts. By the time the plane was airborne I’d forgotten England even existed.

The Beach - Alex Garland (via iamnotatourist)

11/28/10

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If you are sad, ask yourself why you are sad. Then pick up the phone and call someone and tell him or her the answer to the question, Why are you sad? If you don’t know anyone, call the operator and tell him or her. Most people don’t know that the operator has to listen, it is a law. Also, the postman is not allowed to go inside your house, but you can talk to him on public property for up to four minutes or until he wants to go, whichever comes first.

Miranda July, The Shared Patio (via)

(via vasta)

11/10/10

thewordsalloverme:

“Freedom is a wide and risky river; it can drown the person that does not know how to swim across it”.

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11/6/10

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As a species we’re fundamentally insane, put more than two of us in a room, we pick sides and start dreaming up reasons to kill one another. Why do you think we invented politics and religion?

Ollie Weeks - The Mist (via tylersnotthere)

11/2/10

interwar:

“Tomorrow you’re all going to wake up in a brave new world, a world where the Constitution gets trampled by an army of terrorist clones, created in a stem-cell research lab run by homosexual doctors who sterilize their instruments over burning American flags. Where tax-and-spend Democrats take all your hard-earned money and use it to buy electric cars for National Public Radio, and teach evolution to illegal immigrants. Oh, and everybody’s high!”

This is awesome; I love Stephen.

(via oldlittlevolchitsa)

09/25/10

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09/15/10

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09/9/10

newbestfriends:breakhabits:rileymaureen:

“…I think you really should make a radical change in your lifestyle and begin to boldly do things which you may previously never have thought of doing, or been too hesitant to attempt. So many people live within unhappy circumstances and yet will not take the initiative to change their situation because they are conditioned to a life of security, conformity, and conservatism, all of which may appear to give one peace of mind, but in reality nothing is more damaging to the adventurous spirit within a man than a secure future. The very basic core of a man’s living spirit is his passion for adventure. The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun. If you want to get more out of life… you must lose your inclination for a monotonous security and adopt a helter-skelter style of life that will at first appear to you to be crazy. But once you become accustomed to such a life you will see its full meaning and its incredible beauty. And so… in short… get out… and hit the road. I guarantee you will be very glad you did… Don’t settle down and sit in one place. Move around, be nomadic, make each day a new horizon. You are going to live a long time… and it would be a shame if you did not take the opportunity to revolutionize your life and move into an entirely new realm of experience.

You are wrong if you think Joy emanates only or principally from human relationships… It is in everything and anything we might experience. We just have to have the courage to turn against our habitual lifestyle and engage in an unconventional living.

My point is that you do not need me or anyone else around to bring this new kind of light in your life. It is simply waiting out there for you to grasp it, and all you have to do is reach for it. The only person you are fighting is yourself and you stubbornness to engage in new circumstances.

You will see things and meet people and there is much to learn from them. And you must do it economy style, no motels, do your own cooking, as a general rule spend as little money as possible and you will enjoy it much more immensely… Don’t hesitate or allow yourself to make excuses. Just get out and do it. Just get out and do it. You will be very, very glad that you did.”

-Chris ‘Alex’ McCandless

09/6/10

You know what I hate more than anything? The feeling that, no matter what you do, you won’t be able to fix someone else’s problems. Sometimes there’s situations where you just can’t say anything to make it better, and you know it. Feeling so helpless that you can’t even make a dent in what someone else is feeling, and there’s no way to make them feel better. All you can do is be there, but even that’s hard to do sometimes. It just gets to be so lonely for both of you.

08/30/10

fuckyeahglobetrotters:marivy:

“When people ask me how they can become a photographer, I almost never mention cameras, lenses, or technique.

I say, ‘If you want to be a photographer, first leave home.’ As Paul Theroux, a great writer and friend, further advises, “Go as far as you can. Become a stranger in a strange land. Acquire humility.

Leaving home really means that the photographer (or writer) has to wander, observe, and to paraphrase Theroux, concentrate on people in their landscape. That is what I try to achieve in my pictures.”

08/21/10

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