A good quote to tack up on the wall...

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...for those dark times.

From a New Yorker piece on suicide and the Golden Gate Bride. (Not a very good article, actually, because Tad Friend's a bit of a dope, but some worthwhile stories.)

The quote is by Ken Baldwin, who jumped off the bridge in 1985, but managed to survive. He describes his thoughts as he's falling:

"I instantly realized that everything in my life that I'd thought was unfixable was totally fixable--except for having just jumped."

Marcel Post (Marcel Post), Thursday, 9 October 2003 01:02 (twenty-two years ago)

for at work:

"you have to be a pathetic fuckface doormat to work here"

charltonlido (gareth), Thursday, 9 October 2003 06:16 (twenty-two years ago)

Or even better: "You don't have to be a pathetic fuckface doormat to work here, but it helps."

Kenan Hebert (kenan), Thursday, 9 October 2003 06:35 (twenty-two years ago)

(I really enjoyed that New Yorker article.)

Mary (Mary), Thursday, 9 October 2003 06:50 (twenty-two years ago)

eat me

Little Big Macher (llamasfur), Thursday, 9 October 2003 06:53 (twenty-two years ago)

dude, he's talking about a DIFFERENT Tad.

Kingfish (Kingfish), Thursday, 9 October 2003 11:57 (twenty-two years ago)

Anyway, he wasn't talking about you, he was talking about all of your friends.

Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 9 October 2003 12:49 (twenty-two years ago)

Live wach day as your last cuz one day it will be- Harmony

Harmony, Sunday, 19 October 2003 22:51 (twenty-two years ago)

seven months pass...
Had Mother Nature been a real parent, she would have been in jail for child abuse and murder. -- Nick Bostrom

Sébastien Chikara (Sébastien Chikara), Sunday, 6 June 2004 06:03 (twenty-one years ago)

fifteen years pass...

"He saw art as an encumbrance, a deflection from a will that should be concentrated entirely on hating God." - The Philosophy of Samuel Beckett, by John Calder

Andrew Farrell, Wednesday, 3 July 2019 16:08 (six years ago)


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