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"Writers aren't exactly people... they're a whole

"Writers aren't exactly people...
they're a whole bunch of people trying
to be one person."

F. Scott Fitzgerald

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AwkwardlyAnna

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posted December 23, 2013 at 7:57pm UTC tagged with true, writers, inspirational

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I actually attack the concept of happiness. The idea that everything we do is part of the pursuit of happiness seems to me a really dangerous idea, which is fear of sadness. We’re kind of teaching our kids that happiness is the default position -- it’s rubbish. Wholeness is what we ought to be striving for and part of that is sadness, disappointment, frustration, failure; all of those things which make us who we are. Happiness and victory and fulfillment are nice little things that also happen to us, but they don’t teach us much. Everyone says we grow through pain and then as soon as they experience pain they say, 'Quick! Move on! Cheer up!' I’d like just for a year to have a moratorium on the word 'happiness' and to replace it with the word 'wholeness.' Ask yourself, 'Is this contributing to my wholeness?' and if you’re having a bad day, it is.
What is terrible is not death but the lives people choose to live or not live up until their death. They don't honor their own lives. They concentrate too much on money, movies, work, family. Their minds are full of cotton. They swallow God without thinking, they swallow country without thinking. Soon they forget how to think, they let others think for them. Their brains are stuffed with cotton. They look ugly, they talk ugly, they walk ugly. Play them the great music of the centuries and they can't hear it. Most people's deaths are a sham. There's nothing left to die. Charles Bukowski

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