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i don't say we ought to misbehave, but we should look as though we could - Wilde

clothes make the man. naked people have little or no influence in society - Twain

easy reading is damn hard writing - Hawthorne

I don't like to write like God. It is only because you never do it, though, that the critics think you can't do it - Hemingway

Forget your personal tragedy. We are all bitched from the start and you especially have to be hurt like hell before you can write seriously. But when you get the damned hurt, use it-don't cheat with it - Hemingway

i don't have much to say today so i thought i'd leave it to these gentlemen. they've got an idea or two worth perking the ears up for. at some point in my life i'd like to be considered quotable. that's ambition. it's not something i typically associate with, which is why i work in a job that many other people could walk in and do with just a few days of training. that's my fault. i need to change it. people don't quote middle management. they don't quote khakis and a sensible shirt. they don't quote people who have a brown pair of shoes and a black pair of shoes that are, inexplicably, the exact same shoe. or maybe they do on that last one, but it hardly seems like something to hang your hat on. where does responsibility meet up with courageous stupidity? i'd much rather be courageously stupid...fearlessly moronic...thoughtlessly successful then what i'm doing now. these things are all my fault. these daily failures. each day at work i give a nod to the gods of quiet deaths. how did i get to be a coward? when did an adherence and love for subtlety become a mask for a dumb kid who doesn't speak his mind? subtlety doesn't really work for most people anyway. i know this. it's worth a silent smirk from an informed party across the room but that's about it. i'm beginning to think that's not enough.

The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits - Hawthorne