The Curt Truth

"Know that joy is rarer, more difficult, and more beautiful than sadness. Once you make this all-important discovery, you must embrace joy as a moral obligation."
-Andre Gide

Image: Charles Thurston Thompson, Autoportrait, 1853
Title: Carson McCullers, from The Ballad of the Sad Cafe and Other Stories

Deep down and deep inland

"You think I’ll be happy?" 
“Yeah, you just won’t know it.”

-	Alec Baldwin & Kevin Bacon, from the movie, She's having a baby

Image: Argyle Plaids, Left in her Wake

Title: Herman Melville, Moby-Dick, chapter 87