MIXTAPE 101: Love is Simple

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10/08/12

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Love is Simple

An autumn indie / folk / alt rock mixtape playlist for October 2012, featuring Akron/Family, Ben Harper, Radical Face, M. Ward, Bright Eyes, Lisa Mitchell+

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But trouble and pain were what kept a man alive. Or trying to avoid pain and trouble. It was a full time job. And sometimes even in sleep you couldn’t rest.

— Charles Bukowski, Pulp

I am a humanist, which means, in part, that I have tried to behave decently without expectations of rewards or punishments after I am dead.

— Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

Art is to console those who are broken by life.

— Vincent van Gogh

You taught me
to believe in dreams;
thus I was the dredger.

— Anne Sexton, Flee On Your Donkey (poem)

As for me, I am a watercolor.
I wash off.

— Anne Sexton, For My Lover, Returning to his Wife (poem)

The things we fear the most have already happened to us.

— Robin Williams

I realize now that life is just a continual parting of the ways, some more painful than others.

— Amy Harmon, Where the Lost Wander

Your own love story? Your paramour may have had lovers before you. But no one has ever loved him the way you do. No one has ever heard music. Not the way you hear it. The songs are beautiful vampires, asleep in your iPod, coming alive at night, aglow. You can have them on your hours, yours to conduct. Music shapes us and we shape it.

— Emma Forrest

Never get out of bed before noon.

— Charles Bukowski

I guess the only time most people think about injustice is when it happens to them.

— Charles Bukowski, Ham On Rye

I'm not crazy or dangerous, just a bit eccentric and lonely.

— Emma Forrest, Your Voice in My Head

"Your soul will be canceled like a dumb TV show."

— Michael Poore, Reincarnation Blues

Cheer up baby, it wasn't always quite so bad.

— Modest Mouse, Spitting Venom

Only those who would be called upon to risk their lives for their country should have the privilege of voting to determine whether the nation should go to war.

— Smedley Butler, War is a Racket

You don't find love, it finds you. It's got a little bit to do with destiny, fate and what's written in the stars.

— Anaïs Nin

You could stand anywhere and look off in any direction and feel you were nowhere, and yet somehow perfectly bounded, perfectly surrounded. That was Cheyenne: nowhere, wanting nothing more than to be exactly what it was.

— Téa Obreht, Inland

A character in the book is asked what the greatest wonder in the world is. And he answers … He says, The greatest wonder is that every day, all around us, people die, but we act as if it couldn’t happen to us.

— John Kenney, I See You’ve Called in Dead

Someday I'll be locked up for love insanity. 'She loved too much.'

— Anaïs Nin

Maybe one day, in some future now, someone will read what I have written and learn of our existence. That we were part of a Sacred Sisterhood and lived on a sliver of land that remained pure, resplendent, thanks to the piety of the Enlightened. Or maybe they’ll become dust and return to the earth, fertilizing it, nourishing the roots of a tree, and our story will be understood through the leaves that oxygenate the collapsed world.

— Agustina Bazterrica, The Unworthy

Something still exists as long as there’s someone around to remember it.

— Jodi Picoult

“If I were to break my whiskey jug I expect I could glue it so it would look like a fine jug,” Augustus replied. “But it would still be leaky and let the whiskey run out. That’s the way it is with her, Woodrow. They might get her back in church and sing hymns at her till she stops screaming them screams. But she’ll always be leaky. She won’t never be right.”

— Larry McMurtry, Comanche Moon

He’d been an old man when last I saw him, and was played out even further now. But an old wolf is still a wolf.

— Téa Obreht, Inland

I hoard my books. They are people who do not leave.

— Anne Sexton, Self Portrait in Letters

In the years since I’d given up drinking, I’d worried I’d grown dull. Yeah, sobriety was healthier—it made you more “present,” “alive,” “in touch with your feelings”—blah, blah—we all know the benefits—believe me, I don’t need to be convinced. But sometimes, when I was having one of those 4 a.m. existential crises when your eyes snap open in a panic and you start inventorying all the deficits of your life, I worried that by giving up booze, I’d forfeited the last of whatever had made me really interesting and edgy and effervescent.

— Susan Jane Gilman, Donna Has Left the Building

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Are you angry with the bird because he can fly, or angry with the horse for her beauty, or angry with the bear because he has fearsome teeth and claws? Because he’s bigger than you are? Stronger too? Destroying all the things you hate won’t change any of that. You still won’t be a bear or a bird or a horse. Hating men won’t make you a man. Hating your womb or your breasts or your own weakness won’t make those things go away. Hating never fixed anything.

— Amy Harmon, Where the Lost Wander

What we once enjoyed and deeply loved we can never lose, for all that we love deeply becomes a part of us.

— Helen Keller

Life prevails. How strange and wondrous. In the midst of death, life prevails, calls to us, begs us, says, Come, please, don’t you dare waste this precious gift.

— John Kenney, I See You’ve Called in Dead

Arrange whatever pieces come your way.

— Virginia Woolfe

We are all damaged. We have all been hurt. We have all had to learn painful lessons. We are all recovering from some mistake, loss, betrayal, abuse, injustice or misfortune. All of life is a process of recovery that never ends. We each must find ways to accept and move through the pain and to pick ourselves back up. For each pang of grief, depression, doubt or despair there is an inverse toward renewal coming to you in time. Each tragedy is an announcement that some good will indeed come in time. Be patient with yourself.

— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life

“The assumption that animals are without rights and the illusion that our treatment of them has no moral significance is a positively outrageous example of Western crudity and barbarity.”

— Arthur Schopenhauer

It don't mean nothing, drive on.

— Johnny Cash, Drive On

A great sorrow, and one that I am only beginning to understand: we don’t get to choose our own hearts. We can’t make ourselves want what’s good for us or what’s good for other people. We don’t get to choose the people we are.

— Donna Tartt, The Goldfinch

I was waiting for something extraordinary to happen but as the years wasted on nothing ever did unless I caused it.

— Charles Bukowski

It's not really what happens to you that matters as much as who you become in response to those things.

— Katherine Center, The Lost Husband

Never be mean in anything. Never be false. Never be cruel. I can always be hopeful of you.

— Barbara Kingsolver, Demon Copperhead

The trouble is, you think you have time.

— Buddha

Boring damned people. All over the earth. Propagating more boring damned people. What a horror show. The earth swarmed with them.

— Charles Bukowski

But in a solitary life, there are rare moments when another soul dips near yours, as stars once a year brush the earth. Such a constellation was he to me.

— Madeline Miller, Circe

The people with the money and the people with the vision aren’t the same people.

— Michael Poore, Up Jumps the Devil

A woman is like a tea bag— you never know how strong she is until she gets in hot water.

— Eleanor Roosevelt

And did you get what you wanted from this life, even so? I did. And what did you want? To call myself beloved, to feel myself beloved on the earth.

— Raymond Carver

What I’m certain I don’t want, she finally said aloud, is to find myself someday in a new century, an old bitter woman looking back, wishing that right now I’d had more nerve.

— Charles Frazier, Cold Mountain

All had suffered crushing misfortunes and had not been crushed. They had not been broken by the crash of empires, the machetes of revolting slaves, war, rebellion, proscription, confiscation. Malign fate had broken their necks, perhaps, but never their hearts. They had not whined, they had fought. And when they died, they died spent but unquenched. All of those shadowy folks whose blood flowed in her veins seemed to move quietly in the moonlit room.

— Margaret Mitchell, Gone With the Wind

I had no interests. I had no interests in anything. I had no idea how I was going to escape. At least the others had some taste for life. They seemed to understand something that I didn't understand. Maybe I was lacking. It was possible. I often felt inferior. I just wanted to get away from them. But there was no place to go. Suicide? Jesus Christ, just more work. I felt like sleeping for five years but they wouldn't let me.

— Charles Bukowski, Ham On Rye

So it's always a process of letting go, one way or another.

— Charles Bukowski

“We all been through a lot we don’t understand in a world made to either break us or make us so hard we can’t break even when it’s what we need most to do.”

— Tommy Orange, There There

I don’t want him to see me cry. I need to get home. I need to be alone, to lick my wounds and be still until the world stops spinning and settles on this new reality. Maybe with some time I’ll be okay. For the first time in my life, I can’t see how.

— Kerry Anne King, Closer Home

The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.

— Alan Watts

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