This Is Not What You Had Planned
The Wrens
The Wrens, “This Is Not What You Had Planned”
February 2011
“So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”
—The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald
January 2011
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“People travel to wonder at the height of the mountains, at the huge waves of the seas, at the long course of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motion of the stars, and yet they pass by themselves without wondering.”
—St. Augustine
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“My philosophy is that everything starts with a great product. So, you know, I obviously believed in listening to customers, but customers can’t tell you about the next breakthrough that’s going to happen next year that’s going to change the whole industry. So you have to listen very carefully. But then you have to go and sort of stow away — you have to go hide away with people that really understand the technology, but also really care about the customers, and dream up this next breakthrough. And that’s my perspective, that everything starts with a great product.”
—Steve Jobs
“Date a girl who doesn’t read because the girl who reads knows the importance of plot. She can trace out the demarcations of a prologue and the sharp ridges of a climax. She feels them in her skin. The girl who reads will be patient with an intermission and expedite a denouement. But of all things, the girl who reads knows most the ineluctable significance of an end. She is comfortable with them. She has bid farewell to a thousand heroes with only a twinge of sadness.”
—You Should Date An Illiterate Girl
“I hope you all find yourselves sleeping with someone you love, maybe not all of the time, but a lot of the time. The touch of a foot in the night is sincere. I hope you like your work, I hope there’s mystery and poetry in your life- not even poems, but patterns. I hope you see them. Often these will wake you up, and let you know that you are alive, again and again.”
—eileen myles
“Knowing how to be solitary is central to the art of loving. When we can be alone, we can be with others without using them as a means of escape.”
—bell hooks, All About Love: New Visions
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“Pop music, when new, is often discounted as “just noise.” But “just noise” often reveals itself to be much more. When you listen to the Sex Pistols now, more than 30 years after they were discounted as “just noise,” what strikes you most powerfully is how tight and melodic they were.”
—The 373-Hit Wonder
“The difficulty really is psychological and exists in the perpetual torment that results from your saying to yourself, ‘But how can it be like that?’ which is a reflection of uncontrolled but utterly vain desire to see it in terms of something familiar….Do not keep saying to yourself…‘But how can it be like that?’ because you will get…into a blind alley from which nobody has yet escaped. Nobody knows how it can be like that.”
—Richard Feynman
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People will walk in and out of your life, and you cannot do a single thing. All you can do is appreciate the time they stopped by for a visit and hope you will see them again.
