a few lines...

Forget your personal tragedy. We are all bitched from the start and you especially have to be hurt like hell before you can write seriously. But when you get the damned hurt, use it-don't cheat with it. - Ernest Hemingway


...it's difficult to use it if you forget it.

but i can see what he means here.

i need to read some Hemingway; i'd like to get inside his head a bit.


"Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know." - Ernest Hemingway

ridiculously true.
within reason...


certainly you see more faults, realize more, think too much...

once you've lived, you've died, you've loved life for what it is...

you can't go back.


...then again, why would i want to?

*random
i wonder if people realize that every piece of self-worth i possess was fought for.
earned.
had to pass through the fire of my own broken personality.

i didn't begin with any...

but Lord i've gained so much in the past few years...

i think most people take what they think of themselves for granted.
even though i may worry i think too much about myself i'd much rather have begun at nothing and worked my way up that to begin at the top and work my way down...

amazing the little things that make us different.