The whole time I pretend I have mental telepathy. And with my mind only, I’ll say — or think? — to the target, 'Don’t do it. Don’t go to that job you hate. Do something you love today. Ride a roller coaster. Swim in the ocean naked. Go to the airport and get on the next flight to anywhere just for the fun of it. Maybe stop a spinning globe with your finger and then plan a trip to that very spot; even if it’s in the middle of the ocean you can go by boat. Eat some type of ethnic food you’ve never even heard of. Stop a stranger and ask her to explain her greatest fears and her secret hopes and aspirations in detail and then tell her you care because she is a human being. Sit down on the sidewalk and make pictures with colorful chalk. Close your eyes and try to see the world with your nose—allow smells to be your vision. Catch up on your sleep. Call an old friend you haven’t seen in years. Roll up your pant legs and walk into the sea. See a foreign film. Feed squirrels. Do anything! Something! Because you start a revolution one decision at a time, with each breath you take. Just don’t go back to thatmiserable place you go every day. Show me it’s possible to be an adult and also be happy. Please. This is a free country. You don’t have to keep doing this if you don’t want to. You can do anything you want. Be anyone you want. That’s what they tell us at school, but if you keep getting on that train and going to the place you hate I’m going to start thinking the people at school are liars like the Nazis who told the Jews they were just being relocated to work factories. Don’t do that to us. Tell us the truth. If adulthood is working some death-camp job you hate for the rest of your life, divorcing your secretly criminal husband, being disappointed in your son, being stressed and miserable, and dating a poser and pretending he’s a hero when he’s really a lousy person and anyone can tell that just by shaking his slimy hand — if it doesn’t get any better, I need to know right now. Just tell me. Spare me from some awful fucking fate. Please.
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Kept on after the grave, but not begun;
And he who flagg'd ... MATTHEW ARNOLD I want to play the Green Lantern. I'd love to do a comic book hero. Go to the gym, get all buff,... MATTHEW SETTLE Romcoms are hard in a lot of ways: they're built to be buoyant. It's easy to demean them. MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEY Yeah, I did a cameo in an upcoming movie called Constantine. MATTHEW MCGRORY A lot of the stories about urban America tend to be written on the margins. We focus a lot on these ... MATTHEW DESMOND In my twenties, I thought I was Robert De Niro and I invested all of myself in my acting. But, as I&... MATTHEW RHYS Character actors are becoming a thing of the past. They're just going by the wayside. They'r... MATTHEW LILLARD Veal, by definition, is the product of a sick, anemic, deliberately malnourished calf, a newborn dra... MATTHEW SCULLY As much as I long for a sort of security and consistency sometimes, I do enjoy sort of being busted ... MATTHEW MACFADYEN We mislead ourselves when we pretend we can make someone into an effective manager by putting them t... MATTHEW STEWART I love Los Angeles, and it's been very good to me, but if everyone is running around telling the... MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEY It's weird how your perspective changes. At the start of your career, you think, 'I just wan... MATTHEW RHYS Children of men! the unseen Power, whose eye
Forever doth accompany mankind,
Hath look'd on n... MATTHEW ARNOLD I was prepared for the theatre, but not for the nuts and bolts. MATTHEW ASHFORD The true meaning of religion is thus not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion. MATTHEW ARNOLD Odin, thou whirlwind, what a threat is this
Thou threatenest what transcends thy might, even thine... MATTHEW ARNOLD Nature's great law, and law of all men's minds?--
To its own impulse every creature stirs;
Liv... MATTHEW ARNOLD On one she smiles, and he was blest;
She smiles elsewhere--we make a din!
But 'twas not love w... MATTHEW ARNOLD A Rechabite poor Will must live,
And drink of Adam's ale. MATTHEW PRIOR The male is always the pawn in a romantic comedy. Come together, break up, go chase her, get her, ro... MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEY Be to their virtue very kind; be to their faults a little blind. MATTHEW PRIOR We ourselves can die with comfort and even with joy if we know that death is but a passport to bless... MATTHEW SIMPSON For hope is but the dream of those that wake. -Matthew Prior. MATTHEW PRIOR Experience join'd with common sense,
To mortals is a providence. MATTHEW GREEN Soft peace she brings, wherever she arrives:
She builds our quiet, as she forms our lives:
Lay... MATTHEW PRIOR Man was born for society. However little He may be attached to the World, He never can wholly forget... MATTHEW LEWIS We sell here, Sir, what all the world desires to have -- Power. MATTHEW BOULTON There are two types of teachers in the world: there are those who play school and teachers that teac... MATTHEW DICKS Dare to Differ MATTHEW GOLDFINGER Regarding factory-farmed animals We owe them a merciful death, and we owe them a merciful life. And ... MATTHEW SCULLY Looking for and enjoying beauty is a way to nourish the soul. the universe is in the habit of making... MATTHEW FOX In argument similes are like songs in love; they describe much, but prove nothing. MATTHEW PRIOR And 'tis remarkable that they talk most who have the least to say. MATTHEW PRIOR They never taste who always drink; they always talk who never think. MATTHEW PRIOR Cured yesterday of my disease, I died last night of my physician. MATTHEW PRIOR To John I owed great obligation; but John, unhappily, thought fit to publish it to all the nation: S... MATTHEW PRIOR Unquiet souls. In the dark fermentation of earth, in the never idle workshop of nature, in the etern... MATTHEW ARNOLD Hopes are but the dreams of those that wake. MATTHEW PRIOR Who walks the fastest, but walks astray, is only furthest from his way. MATTHEW PRIOR One lesson we can learn from pre-industrial peoples is the power of storytelling. I am struck by how... MATTHEW FOX Odds life! must one swear to the truth of a song? MATTHEW PRIOR With aching hands and bleeding feet We dig and heap, lay stone on stone; We bear the burden a... MATTHEW ARNOLD The true meaning of religion is thus, not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion. MATTHEW ARNOLD Forbear to mention what thou canst not praise. MATTHEW PRIOR With close-lipped Patience for our only friend, Sad Patience, too near neighbor to Despair. MATTHEW ARNOLD