"I don’t see any paradox in that which celebrates all things within the context of the extremely brief gift of consciousness."

Ian McEwan considers the meaning of life in conversation with Zadie Smith. Also see the mortality paradox and cultural icons on the meaning of life. (via explore-blog)

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At NASA’s Drawing Board - J R Eyerman

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Happy 80th, Michael Caine!

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"Life has become immeasurably better since I have been forced to stop taking it seriously."

Hunter S. Thompson

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French photographer Eric Valli’s ”Off The Grid“ photo series, about Americans who leave mainstream society to live closer to nature

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Artist’s note:

There are growing number of people 
who have decided to live light on the earth
to not be a part of problem anymore
I spent the last few years with four of them 
striving for harmony with nature 
in the most pristine corners of United States.

"For what it’s worth: it’s never too late or, in my case, too early to be whoever you want to be. There’s no time limit, stop whenever you want. You can change or stay the same, there are no rules to this thing. We can make the best or the worst of it. I hope you make the best of it. And I hope you see things that startle you. I hope you feel things you never felt before. I hope you meet people with a different point of view. I hope you live a life you’re proud of. If you find that you’re not, I hope you have the strength to start all over again."

F. Scott Fitzgerald  (via thatkindofwoman)

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Picasso’s Light Drawings

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It was fifty years ago today that Bob Dylan had his first recording session at Columbia Records. Dylan was backup harmonica for folk singer Caroline Hester — It was shortly after that Dylan was offered his own deal with Columbia.

see more — Bob Dylan: The Early Days

"[When Vonnegut tells his wife he’s going out to buy an envelope] Oh, she says, well, you’re not a poor man. You know, why don’t you go online and buy a hundred envelopes and put them in the closet? And so I pretend not to hear her. And go out to get an envelope because I’m going to have a hell of a good time in the process of buying one envelope. I meet a lot of people. And, see some great looking babes. And a fire engine goes by. And I give them the thumbs up. And, and ask a woman what kind of dog that is. And, and I don’t know. The moral of the story is, is we’re here on Earth to fart around. And, of course, the computers will do us out of that. And, what the computer people don’t realize, or they don’t care, is we’re dancing animals. You know, we love to move around. And, we’re not supposed to dance at all anymore."

Kurt Vonnegut

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"I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all the kinds of things you can’t see from the center."

Kurt Vonnegut

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"Let us toast to animal pleasures,
to escapism,
to rain on the roof and instant coffee,
to unemployment insurance and library cards,
to absinthe and good-hearted landlords,
to music and warm bodies and contraceptives…
and to the “good life,”
whatever it is and wherever it happens to be."

Hunter S. Thompson

"I want a life that sizzles and pops and makes me laugh out loud. And I don’t want to get to the end, or to tomorrow, even, and realize that my life is a collection of meetings and pop cans and errands and receipts and dirty dishes. I want to eat cold tangerines and sing out loud in the car with the windows open and wear pink shoes and stay up all night laughing and paint my walls the exact color of the sky right now. I want to sleep hard on clean white sheets and throw parties and eat ripe tomatoes and read books so good they make me jump up and down, and I want my everyday to make God belly laugh, glad that he gave life to someone who loves the gift."

Shauna Niequist, Cold Tangerines: Celebrating the Extraordinary Nature of Everyday Life

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