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121 " Nothing's ever lost foreverIt's just caught inside the cushions of your couchAnd when you find itYou'll have such a nice surpriseNothing's ever lost foreverIt's just hiding in the recess of your mindAnd when you need itIt will come to you at night "
― Amanda Palmer , The Grand Theft Art Companion
122 " No one's ever lost foreverThey are caught inside your heartIf you garden them and water themThey make you what you are "
123 " They all told me I had a fear of intimacy, but I vehemently disagreed; I craved intimacy like a crack addict. "
― Amanda Palmer , The Art of Asking; or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Let People Help
124 " Asking is an act of intimacy and trust. Begging is a function of fear, desperation, or weakness. Those who must beg demand our help; those who ask have faith in our capacity for love and in our desire to share with one another. "
125 " American culture in particular has instilled in us the bizarre notion that to ask for help amounts to an admission of failure. But some of the most powerful, successful, admired people in the world seem, to me, to have something in common: they ask constantly, creatively, compassionately, and gracefully. "
126 " My PMS can be brutal: I transform from a pretty reasonable person into a black hole of doubt, despair, and existentially flailing Muppet arms. "
127 " We all got used to living in the cloud of unknowing. "
128 " The art of asking can be learned, studied, perfected. The masters of asking, like the masters of painting and music, know that the field of asking is fundamentally improvisational. It thrives not in the creation of rules and etiquette but in the smashing of that etiquette. "
129 " Throughout my career, the fanbase has been like one big significant other to me, a thousand-headed friend with whom I have a real, committed partnership. I "
130 " The world is like a ride in an amusement park, and when you choose to go on it you think it's real because that's how powerful our minds are — and we can change it any time we want. It's only a choice. "
― Amanda Palmer
131 " We were far more interested in serving our slowly growing, tight-knit community of weirdos than we were in topping the charts. "
132 " People can understand a price tag no matter what it's stuck on. But they couldn't understand the messier exchange of asking and giving: the gift that stays in motion. "
133 " My blog readership grew steadily as I started to dump more of my inner self onto the page. I "
134 " To erase the possibility of empathy is to erase the possibility of understanding "
135 " That’s the whole point, darling, he said. Writers make things up. "
136 " The Art of Asking is a book about cultivating trust and getting as close as possible to love, vulnerability, and connection. Uncomfortably close. Dangerously close. Beautifully close. And uncomfortably close is exactly where we need to be if we want to transform this culture of scarcity and fundamental distrust. Distance "
137 " There is never ever any space for regret or fear. It’s poison. "
138 " Those who ask without fear learn to say two things, with or without words, to those they are facing: I deserve to ask and You are welcome to say no. "
139 " We weren’t in the hit business, or anywhere near it; we were in the community-art-cult-poetry-family-love business. Even "
140 " Using art. Collecting and connecting the dots of each other’s lives. All art, no matter what shape it is, has to come from somewhere. We can only connect the dots that we can collect. "