You can forget that other people carry pieces of your own story around in their heads. I’ve always thought—put together all those random pieces form everyone who’s ever known you from your parents to the guy who once sat next to you on a bus, and you’d probably see a fuller version of your life than you even did while living it.
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Deb Caletti (via creatingaquietmind) This makes plenty of sense. |
If you ever doubt the power of language, listen more closely. Witness the magic the first time someone whispers “i love you.” Watch a woman put on head phones, close her eyes, and have her life changed by a lyric. See a bad moment flipped upside down by a well timed joke. Words propel us, empower us, make us human and more than human. We constantly struggle to say what we mean and mean what we say. To “wrestle with words and meanings.” that’s what t.s. eliot calls it. But as we whisper and shout, stutter and spin, we create order out of the chaos around us. We are built of words, and we live by them, too.
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Unknown (via creatingaquietmind) Wonderful, and absolutely true. |
Comedians are, and this is the mutant gene, you’re doing what you’re doing and you’re watching yourself do what you do. This is what comedians do by nature. We are always observing. Most people on Saturday Night Live, like interviewers would say, “Were you the class clown?” and almost all of us would say, “Absolutely not!” I was the person in the back row making the wise ass comments. You know, there’s a difference between the class clown and the person who’s ripping ‘em very subtly because they’re watching and observing what’s happening and they’re careful about it.
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