I don’t write for children.
I write.
And somebody says, “That’s for children.”
— Maurice Sendak, 2012
作者： happy
Once you have many people doing something, you have lots of competition and little differentiation. You, generally, never want to be part of a popular trend… So I think trends are often things to avoid. What I prefer over trends is a sense of mission. That you are working on a unique problem that people are not solving elsewhere. - Peter Thiel
Kurt Vonnegut on picking a lane:
Find a subject you care about and which you in your heart feel others should care about. It is this genuine caring, and not your games with language, which will be the most compelling and seductive element in your style.
I am not urging you to write a novel, by the way—although I would not be sorry if you wrote one, provided you genuinely cared about something. A petition to the mayor about a pothole in front of your house or a love letter to the girl next door will do.
Language can become a screen which stands between the thinker and reality. This is the reason why true creativity often starts where language ends. — Arthur Koestler
A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it.
— Rabindranath Tagore
当代人的生活是忙碌的，特别是在现代化的城市里，我们处于一种快节奏的生活之中。在资本所导致的进步强制的驱迫之下，我们几无闲暇，何论静观？我们甚至连看一看蓝天白云和路边的花草的那种悠闲的心情都已消失。但是，倘若我们经历了严重的挫折，经受到命运的打击，我们才会突然发现自己的心灵有如沙漠一般荒芜。于是，我们想要奔向心灵的绿洲，这绿洲就是艺术。在这片绿洲上，我们有可能观照真理。 - 王德峰 《寻觅意义》
Jerry Seinfeld likes to say, “I’m never not working on material. Every second of my existence, I am thinking, ‘What can I do with that?’”
If you're trying to curate and control everything, you're not really taking any risks in life or in art: you'll never feel that good about being seen because what's being seen isn't you. - Ava
Here is my resume: I am a good mother to three children. I have tried never to let my profession stand in the way of being a good parent. I no longer consider myself the center of the universe. I show up. I listen, I try to laugh. I am a good friend to my husband. I have tried to make marriage vows mean what they say. I show up. I listen. I try to laugh. I am a good friend to my friends, and they to me. Without them, there would be nothing to say to you today, because I would be a cardboard cutout. But call them on the phone, and I meet them for lunch. I show up. I listen. I try to laugh. via
Many people fear nothing more terribly than to take a position which stands out sharply and clearly from the prevailing opinion. The tendency of most is to adopt a view that is so ambiguous that it will include everything and so popular that it will include everybody. Not a few men who cherish lofty and noble ideas hide them under a bushel for fear of being called different.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
杜甫一生诗圣之名实至如归。然《礼记》中说好男儿应"修身、齐家、治国、平天下"。先要提高自己，才能经营好自己的家庭，能经营自己的家庭才能治理一国，具备治理一国的能力才能平定天下。然观杜甫一生，自身不能修，留褊躁傲诞之名。为人夫不能齐家，为人父不能哺育，为人子无力奉老。不思进取而破壁，任小儿饿杀而不思图变以养家，仅枯坐空谈治国之道，小家尚不能治何以治国？ via
I’m thinking about how they say “you should never meet your heroes” because it’ll likely end up being a disappointment. I disagree. I think getting to know my heroes—the people I most look up to—is what’s made me realize we’re all humans and there is nothing separating us from them. via