- I don’t want to work for other people . (Başkaları için çalışmak istemiyorum .)
His Father :
- Don’t be silly! Life is like this . You don’t have a chance.
( Aptal olma ! Hayat böyle . Başka şansın yok.)
It is silly of you, for there is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.
(Aptal olma. Hakkında konuşuluyor olmasından daha kötü bir şey varsa şu dünyada, o da hakkında konuşulmuyor olmasıdır.)
i could never be somebody's crush. i could never be the romantic interest in some other boy's story. i'm not pretty enough to have that kind of love. that kind of love where he stares at you and says that "you are so beautiful". i'm not that pretty enough to be loved from afar. pined after. persued. sure, someone will love me eventually, but they'll have to know me. and maybe that's not so bad. but is it too much to want to be wanted like the boys want pretty girls? to be wanted like i see on tv? i just want someone to have a crush on me. a silly little crush, for a silly little girl.
That accounts for the fact that we all take such pains to over-educate ourselves. In the wild struggle for existence, we want to have something that endures, and so we fill our minds with rubbish and facts, in the silly hope of keeping our place.
Hepimiz kendimizi eğitmek için bu kadar zahmete giriyoruz. Bu vahşi varoluş mücadelesinde, hepimiz kalıcı bir şeylere sahip olmak istiyoruz ve yerimizi korumak adına, aptalca bir umut besleyerek, zihinlerimizi çöplerle, birtakım gerçeklerle dolduruyoruz.
Writing for publication may be both the easiest and the hardest thing you’ll ever do. Learning the rules—if they can be called rules—is the easy part. Following them, turning them into regular habits, is an ongoing struggle. Here are the rules:
1. Read. Read about the art, the craft, and the business of writing. Read the kind of work you’d like
She's everything but crazy.
They've mistaken her passion for aggressiveness,
her needs for silly demands.
Her flaws were too much to handle
and her love was too real to accept...