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"This is the violet hour, the hour of hush and wonder, when the affections glow again and valor is reborn, when the shadows deepen magically along the edge of the forest and we believe that, if we watch carefully, at any moment we may see the unicorn."

-Bernard DeVoto “The Hour”

"If someone offered me Tokyo or Paris on a Saturday or Kentucky or Mississippi on a Tuesday, I’d take Kentucky"

-Bassnectar

"Statistically, the probability of any one of us being here is so small that the mere fact of our existence should keep us all in a state of contented dazzlement."

-Lewis Thomas (via joshuakaufman)

"I have come to feel as though I’m just sitting around looking for things to do while waiting to die. So change is a necessity."

-Billy Reiser - a dude who’s making some pretty inspiring moves.

"I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I’m awake, you know?"

-Ernest Hemingway 

"I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all the kinds of things you can’t see from the center."

-Kurt Vonnegut (via loveyourchaos)

"She may be going to Hell, of course, but at least she isn’t standing still"

-E.E. Cummings

"I wouldn’t recommend sex, drugs, or insanity for everyone, but they’ve always worked for me."

-Hunter S. Thompson

"You define yourself by the people you love and that’s enough."

-Jeff Tweedy (via obliteratedheart)

"And that’s the thing about people who mean everything they say. They think everyone else does too."

-The Kite Runner (via kari-shma)

"That whole thing will be jammed with people; fifty thousand or so, and most of them staggering drunk. It’s a fantastic scene—thousands of people fainting, crying, copulating, trampling each other, and fighting with broken whiskey bottles."

-Louisville native Hunter S. Thompson on the Kentucky Derby Infield

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