![TranscriptKesey[Redacted]Dec 15, 1986James Harmon[Redacted]Dear James:Here’s some advice I have been giving to just-marrieds over the last decade or so:Don’t say it. It’s too hard to take it back. I’ve seen too many loves sundered by too much needless honesty. These psychological ding-dongs that tell people to speak their minds to their mates, to vent their spleens? What do they accomplish? All they produce is a lot of lonely self-righteous minds & ventilated spleens. Ken KeseyP.S. Faye & I have been married 35 years. KK
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Kesey
[Redacted]
Dec 15, 1986
James Harmon
[Redacted]
Dear James:
Here’s some advice I have been giving to just-marrieds over the last decade or so:
Don’t say it. It’s too hard to take it back. I’ve seen too many loves sundered by too much needless honesty. These psychological ding-dongs that tell people to speak their minds to their mates, to vent their spleens? What do they accomplish? All they produce is a lot of lonely self-righteous minds & ventilated spleens.
Ken Kesey
P.S. Faye & I have been married 35 years. KK
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I read “50 Shades of Grey” because Faulkner told me to
Q: What is the best training for writing? Courses in writing? Or what?
WF: Read, read, read! Read everything - trash, classics, good and bad; see how they do it. When a carpenter learns his trade, he does so by observing. Read! You’ll absorb it. Write. If it is good you’ll find out. If it’s not, throw it out the window.
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C’est La Vie: Dalai Lama’s 18 Rules for Living
1. Take into account that great love and great achievements involve great risk.
2. When you lose, don’t lose the lesson.
3. Follow the three R’s
- Respect for self
- Respect for others
- Responsibility for all your actions
4. Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke…
5. Learn the rules so you know how to break them properly.
6. Don’t let a little dispute injure a great friendship.
7. When you realize you’ve made a mistake, take immediate steps to correct it.
8. Spend some time alone every day.
9. Open your arms to change, but don’t let go of your values.
10. Remember that silence is sometimes the best answer.
11. Live a good honorable life. Then when you get older and think back, you’ll be able to enjoy it a second time.
12. A loving atmosphere in your home is the foundation for your life.
13. In disagreements with loved ones, deal only with the current situation. Don’t bring up the past.
14. Share your knowledge, it’s a way to achieve immortality.
15. Be gentle with the earth.
16. Once a year go someplace you’ve never been before.
17. Remember that the best relationship is one in which your love for each other exceeds your need for each other.
18. Judge your success by what you had to give up in order to get it.
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![TranscriptKesey[Redacted]Dec 15, 1986James Harmon[Redacted]Dear James:Here’s some advice I have been giving to just-marrieds over the last decade or so:Don’t say it. It’s too hard to take it back. I’ve seen too many loves sundered by too much needless honesty. These psychological ding-dongs that tell people to speak their minds to their mates, to vent their spleens? What do they accomplish? All they produce is a lot of lonely self-righteous minds & ventilated spleens. Ken KeseyP.S. Faye & I have been married 35 years. KK
(via Letters of Note: Don’t say it)](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lvy8mdyu0N1qzx94xo1_1280.jpg)
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You will never know unless you try.
That’s what people always tell you.
And it’s good advice.
But what they don’t tell you is that sometimes you will try your hardest, and you still won’t know.
And maybe you never will.
That’s good advice too.
Hear, hear.
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