“I don’t like the way you treat me at all. You have totally wrecked me with your absent-minded, dumb promises to come see me, and with your equally fog-bound, last minute announcements that your life has become so complicated that you cannot come.”
— Kurt Vonnegut, from a letter to Nanny Vonnegut written c. March 1974
“I don’t want artists to be shitty people but I don’t want artists to be held up to the same standards as politicians. We shouldn’t have to be superheroes.”
“… Then I grieve and wait for the dream that will make me a child again, and I’ll be happy again, knowing that all still lies ahead, and nothing is impossible.”
— “Mirror” (1975), directed by Andrey Tarkovsky
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You’re probably wondering whether what you experienced was really ‘that bad?’. Let me tell you - if you have to question it, if it hurts, if it still runs through your mind, it was.
You don’t have to feel guilty over the pain you’re feeling.
