Tat Idea

I don't have a real definitive idea of how to get the ink done, BUT, I have a friend here in Lakeland who is a tattoo artist, and I am getting the itch after talking to him Saturday night about his work....SO, after the hardest year of my life, and hopefully the hardest I will ever have, I am IN. I come home to Buffalo until January 10th after tying some shit up in Kalamazoo, so I have time to think before geting my ink (cute how I rhymed that there right?)....Totally self-serving here, but I'd love input because I have a million ideas and inspirations for it, but, don't want to turn into tattoo man, just want another one...ONE

Inspirational, yes. I like books, like 'em a lot, so Kerouac, Vonnegut and Hemingway quotes that I am thinking about (and pretty much my finalists):

"A man can be destroyed, but not defeated." -- Hemingway (I'd say that's pretty umm, relevant)

"The man who has begun to live more seriously within begins to live more simply without." -- Hemingway

"The world breaks everyone and afterward many are stronger at the broken places. " -- Hemingway


"Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.” -- Kerouac

"Accept loss forever.” -- Kerouac



"So it goes..." -- Vonnegut (the context in which this is used is ideal, it's usefulness in all situations -- and it's brevity -- makes it the front-runner....)

"Everything was beautiful and nothing hurt." -- Vonnegut Physically manifested:



And then this one (also a front-runner), which is way too long, but fits perfectly -- if I could parse it out a little I could make it work:

"“I must learn to love the fool in me - the one who feels too much, talks too much, takes too many chances, wins sometimes and loses often, lacks self-control, loves and hates, hurts and gets hurt, promises and breaks promises, laught and cries [POSSIBLE END THERE]. It alone protects me against that utterly self-controlled masterful tyrant whom I also harbor and who would rob me of human aliveness, humility, and dignity but for my fool.” -- Theodore Isaac Rubin