"I am not a brave man at all, but a cautious, even timid soul who makes himself pull off one stunt after another for his own good. And I entered the lonely darkness thinking: Public space should not be like this; all the world ought to be mine. But how can I make it so?" (61)
"Every time I surrender, even necessarily, to authority which disregardingly or contemptuously violates me, so I violate myself. Every time I break an unnecessary law, doing so for my own joy and to the detriment of no other human being, so I regain myself, and become strong in the parts of me that the security man can never see." (97-8)
From William T. Vollmann's train-hopping memoir, Riding to Everywhere.
"In disused factories and abandoned barns I feel emotions that are aesthetic (beauty defined by function), nostalgic (sites of production where nothing now is produced), erotic (memories of children’s games), beneficent vacuity, calm, all mixed up, in a tingling way, with feelings of death, fear (perfect scene for a crime), and the forbidden (no one gave me permission to enter this private property)."
—Edouard Levé, Autoportrait, p. 98, translated by Lorin Stein.
"Everyone makes mistakes. Or perhaps you're just stupid and make poor decisions."
~Adam Carolla
[last edit 2/21/2019 6:14 PM by Mr. Bitey - edited 1 times] Give abandonment a reason for its sacrificial reclamation to nature. Love it. Remember it. Take a picture. Share it. Leave the decay to nature.
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“Live fast, die young and have a good-looking corpse!” is actually a famous line said by actor John Derek in the film Knock On Any Door, which premiered on February 21, 1949.
or
“Live fast, die young and leave a beautiful corpse!” Unknown, so far...
four more from memory.
"Do not put off until tomorrow, what you can do today." President Kennedy
Made good sense to a 6 year old...
"Rain is only water" Albert Einstein April 1939 Flushing New York.
"Even in the future urinals don't work" Me, 2010 in a public men's room.
"Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth.” - Sherlock Homes”― Arthur Conan Doyle
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