"I want to be bored. But I can't. But I really don't want to be this thing that I'm having to be instead of being bored."

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Source : Ali Smith (2014). “How to be Both”, p.252, Penguin UK

Ali Smith

#Bored Quotes #Want Quotes

“I was like, Am I gay? Am I straight? And I realized...I'm just slutty. Where's my parade?”

Source : "Cho, No Mercy" by Sam Hurwitt, www.sfgate.com. June 12, 2005.
“The traditional statement about language is that it is in itself living, and that writing is the dead part of language.”
“While there's life, there's hope.”
“Conscious means "having an awareness of one's inner and outer worlds; mentally perceptive, awake, mindful." So "conscious business" might mean, engaging in an occupation, work, or trade in a mindful, awake fashion. This implies, of course, that many people do not do so. In my experience, that is often the case. So I would definitely be in favor of conscious business; or conscious anything, for that matter.”
“I like the concept of an anti-muse, though I'm not quite sure what that is. If there is such a thing in my life, I suppose it is just this weariness, this sense that it is more fulfilling not to exist, to efface all traces, than to limit oneself to the determined expression of manifestation.”
“During his fifteen years in Italy, Hannibal never had enough elephants to suit him. Most of the original group succumbed to the climate, and he was always begging Carthage for more, but the people at home were stingy. They would ask if he thought they were made of elephants and what had he done with the elephants they sent before.”
“I've seen optimism because I grew up in communities of recovery where people put their lives back together and find tomorrows that they didn't think would be there. That fundamentally changed my life and is so much of where my hope comes from.”

Source : Source: www.progressive.org
“Like most other creatives, I struggle with self-sabotage, self-doubt, and feeling like an imposter more often than not. I struggle with expressing myself, because it does sometimes feel easier or safer not to.”

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