In my experience, whatever happens clings to us like barnacles on the hull of a ship, slowing us slightly, both uglifying and giving us texture. You can scrape all you want, you can, if you have money, hire someone else to scrape, but the barnacles will come back or at least leave a blemish on the steel.
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| — | Nick Flynn, Another Bullshit Night in Suck City (aka Being Flynn) |
It takes courage to grow up and turn out to be who you really are.
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| — | e.e. cummings (via modernhepburn) |
