How embarrassing it is to be human.
— Kurt Vonnegut (via thatquote)
It was always the becoming he dreamed of, never the being.
-F. Scott Fitzgerald- (This Side of Paradise)
There is Nothing New Under the Sun
You’re a slave, a bound helpless slave to one thing in this world, your imagination.
— F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise (via quotes-shape-us)
She can’t sing
Super nervous for tomorrow
I have this huge solo for Pops, and i don’t think I sound that great on it.
I sound good at home, but when I sing it in front of people, my vibrato and artistry starts to go downhill. And what is frustrating is that I KNOW I can do better, but whatever comes out of my mouth isn’t up to my normal standard. I can’t even concentrate on school,which I just want to be over by now. So frustrating- I didn’t even think I sounded nice on this solo anyway!
Whatever. I’ll just try. Blaaahh
He was like a god. When I was 6 or 7 years old, I remember standing with a neighbour boy on a 5th-floor balcony. He said to me: ‘If Stalin ordered it, would you jump?’ And I said yes.
— Slava (Vladislav) Tsukerman who got out of Russia in 1973; this was his vestigial, fragmented, small-boy memories of growing up under Stalin. (via collegeahistory)
Soviet snipers Lyudmila Pavlichenko and Vladimir Pchelintsev meet First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt in the U.S. 1942
(Source: dream-on-my-dreamer)
