“You’re walking. And you don’t always realize it,
but you’re always falling.
With each step you fall forward slightly.
And then catch yourself from falling.
Over and over, you’re falling.
And then catching yourself from falling.
And this is how you can be walking and falling
at the same time.”
Laurie Anderson
“A woman has to live her life, or live to repent not having lived it.”
“Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.”
Søren Kierkegaard
“It’s not important for me to be reminded of who I am. I’ve never felt the need to do those things. I don’t understand people’s compulsions to network, to be social, to be part of a group or join in. All I ever wanted to do was join out. It doesn’t make sense to me.”
Harmony Korine
“I want it to be a sensory thing, that it goes through you like a feeling or a rush more than anything else. The way that really hard repetitive bass feels in your gut, lke when you hear someone in a truck with bass just blaring and smashing, so smashing that it knocks your eyes out of your socket. That’s all that I care about…It’s got to really rattle your insides. I’m trying to get to some place where the reaction is more physical than anything else. Something that exists within you—like bass.”
Harmony Korine, on how he wants audiences to feel while watching ‘Spring Breakers’
“When you’re lying alone in bed at night, and you reach your hands down beneath the covers…I want you to think of me.”
Morrissey
“Plant your own garden and decorate your own soul, instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers.”
Veronica A. Shoffstall, “After a While,” 1971
“The South changed since I grew up there as a kid, but there’s still a few streets that are really special, and great characters. Like the other day I saw this woman with curlers in her hair and boxing gloves, and she was punching herself in the face, she was walking, a black lady, and it was spectacular, the kind of thing I live for. And the other day I saw this black guy dressed up as a dollar bill, just walking down the street, it was like a stuffed animal but a full dollar bill. So that’s the kind of thing I do. I’ll see a character or a person like that and I’ll just imagine what their house looks like, and maybe they have kids, and I just start to embed a backstory.”
“Always remember, the whole world acts like a screen, and you go on projecting yourself. Whatsoever you say about others, says more about you. It does not say anything about others; because how can you know others? — you don’t even know yourself.”
“For my next trick I will make everyone understand me.”
“When you run after your thoughts, you are like a dog chasing a stick. Every time a stick is thrown, you run after it. Instead, be like a lion who, rather than chasing after the stick, turns to face the thrower. One only throws a stick at a lion once.”
“However you may be, be your own source of experience. Throw off your discontent about your nature. Forgive yourself, your own self. You have it in your power to merge everything you have lived through; false starts, errors, delusions, passions, your loves and your hopes into your goal with nothing left over.”
“The unreal is more powerful than the real. Because nothing is as perfect as you can imagine it. Because its only intangible ideas, concepts, beliefs, fantasies that last. Stone crumbles. Wood rots. People, well, they die. But things as fragile as a thought, a dream, a legend, they can go on and on. If you can change the way people think. The way they see themselves. The way they see the world. You can change the way people live their lives. That’s the only lasting thing you can create.”
Chuck Palahniuk (Choke)
“I feel like a wet seed wild in the hot blind earth.”
