Eric

The heights by great men reached and kept
Were not attained by sudden flight,
But they while their companions slept
Were toiling upward in the night.
"Men and women alike appeared to accept with equanimity the circumstances (on the whole, commonplace and unchanging) of their lives in a way that no one seems able to do now anywhere."
-William Maxwell, speaking on the culture of Lincoln, Illinois
"When I go home to Lincoln I tend to put aside whatever in my life I suspect would be of no interest to people there, and sometimes this results in my feeling that I am going around with my head in a brown paper bag."
-William Maxwell, from "My Father's Friends".
"When I dream about Lincoln it is always the way it was in my childhood. Or rather, I dream that it is [still] that way- for the geography has been tampered with and is half real, half a rearrangement of my sleeping mind... When I dream about it, the proportions are so satisfying to the eye and the rooms so bright, so charming and full of character that I feel that I must somehow give up my present life and go live in that house: that nothing else will make me happy."
-William Maxwell, from "So Long, See You Tomorrow"
DON'T YOU THINK I GOT ENOUGH BULLSHIT ON MY MIND? REAL TALK.

Go fuck one of your funky-ass friends... hell you're probably already doin that shit anyway. (Again.)