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Tag: quotes

Out of Context Post-Its

intimate mingling of feelings of plentitude + emptiness WRITE YOURSELF, YOU WILL SURVIVE (Annie Ernaux) look like I’ve been fed … More

books, diary, ideas, journal, notes, quotations, quotes, writers, writing

Out Of The Mouths Of Doctors

Your blood is highly uncooperative. If you were my daughter, I honestly wouldn’t know what to do with you. I’ve … More

doctors, health, hospital, life, London, memoir, mental health, NHS, nurses, poem, poetry, psychiatry, quotations, quotes

2019

Starting off this new year with two pertinent quotations, both by Norman Cousins, because I honestly cannot find the words that … More

2019, death, inspiration, life, new year, quotation, quotes, sadness, truth, wisdom, words, writing

1218

I’ve been writing a lot, but nothing really worth publishing on its own. Mainly angry revelations and paranoid ramblings about myself/my … More

christmas, crisis, depression, diary, journal, life, London, loneliness, madness, mental health, mental illness, notebook, paranoia, quotes, suicide, writing

When Life Gives You Lemons…

…just say, “Fuck the lemons!” and bail. …lose yourself in liquor and literature.

alcohol, books, drunk, go away, life, literature, photo, quotes, reading

Obs @ Ye Olde Red Lion

I’ve seen this building thousands of times, with its huge brass lion, painted red once upon a time, weathered over … More

architecture, conversations, diary, family, journal, life, observations, people, prose, quotes, writing

Mayisms

Stuff and things from the not-so-merry month of May 2016. Xx

art, books, collage, depression, diary, journal, life, literature, London, photojournal, poetry, quotes, signs, travel, visual, writing

April Showers

Stuff & things from April: In the last few years I’ve become an accepted eccentric at best, and a fuckup … More

art, birthday, blah, books, diary, journal, life, London, photography, quotes, stuff and things, writing

200416: Anything, Honest

“The hands of a clock run in only one direction.” Text from South of the Border, West of the Sun by Haruki … More

art, blah, books, collage, colour, creativity, fiction, inspiration, Murakami, photography, poetry, quotes, sobriety, writing

Kill Your Darlings (2013)

“Be careful, you are not in Wonderland. I’ve heard the strange madness long growing in your soul. But you are … More

beat poetry, Beats, cinema, film, inspiration, life, movies, quotations, quotes, script

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