Happiness in Words

A blog devoted to looking for happiness through creativity.
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When I was super depressed, I wasn’t working—I was always too depressed. Hemingway did his best work when he didn’t drink, then he drank himself to death and blew his head off with a shotgun. Someone asked John Cheever, “What’d you learn from Hemingway?” and he said “I learned not to blow my head off with a shotgun.” I remember going to the Michigan poetry festival, meeting Etheridge Knight there and Robert Creeley. Creeley was so drunk—he was reading and he only had one eye, of course, and had to hold his book like two inches from his face using his one good eye. But you look at somebody like George Saunders—I think he’s the best short story writer in English alive—that’s somebody who tries very hard to live a sane, alert life.

You’re present when you’re not drinking a fifth of Jack Daniel’s every day. It’s probably better for your writing career, you know? I think being tortured as a virtue is a kind of antiquated sense of what it is to be an artist.
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In an interview with The Fix, Mary Karr debunks the toxic mythology that it is necessary to be damaged in order to be creative. My own vehement defiance to that mythology is what led me to choose Ray Bradbury – the ultimate epitome of creating from joy rather than suffering – as the subject of my contribution to The New York Times’ The Lives They Lived.

Pair with Karr on why writers write.

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lovequotesrus:

EVERYTHING LOVE

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“ You never knew exactly how much space you occupied in people’s lives. ”

F. Scott Fitzgerald (via thisisyourmaverick)

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hip-h0pp:

Will Smith, Jaden Smith, Alfonso Ribeiro, and DJ Jazzy Jeff perform a Fresh Prince Of Bel Air medley on The Graham Norton Show 24th May 2013 [x]

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“ How inappropriate to call this planet earth when it is quite clearly Ocean. ”

Sir Arthur C. Clarke (via crookedindifference)

therhumboogie:

Finca Bellavista, this amazing self-sustaining treehouse community in the rainforest canopy of Costa Rica, now 7 years down the line has grown to a surprising 600 acre complex connected by zip-lines and bridges. Situated 1.5 miles away from the nearest town, it is a perfect architectural project getaway that is constantly growing. It would be a dream to holiday there!

lovequotesrus:

EVERYTHING LOVE

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theimpossiblecool:

“Because in the end, you won’t remember the time you spent working in the office or mowing your lawn. Climb that goddamn mountain.”

Jack Kerouac.

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10knotes:

It all seemed too easy, way too easy..

It’s almost back!

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