it survives all right. it aches like an open book.
Fleet Foxes: Grown Ocean
If you can’t distinguish between the studio recording and live version of a song, that band/artist automatically counts as required listening.
Actual happiness always looks pretty squalid in comparison with the over-compensations for misery. And, of course, stability isn’t nearly so spectacular as instability. And being contented has none of the glamour of a good fight against misfortune, none of the picturesqueness of a struggle with temptation, or a fatal overthrow by passion or doubt. Happiness is never grand.
Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
