“Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you’ve imagined.” Oh please.
Okay, the only kind of person to use this particular nancy-ass quote as a motivational call-to-action is the same kind of person who hung Monet prints on his dorm wall and listened to to the Les Miz soundtrack.
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I was once given sage advice too. It was:
“No money, no honey. Not funny.”
Hm… my dreams are primarily about sex. The quote works for me.
Not only is the quotation out of context (paragraph 2), but is badly misquoted, so I doubt that anyone who bought it on a poster in this from would have heard of Monet. It does as much justice to Thoreau as a wall print does to Monet or the musical does to the Hugo novel. I wonder if Chris has ever read Walden Pond, Les Miserables, or seen a Monet original?
I live in Washington, DC, and received my degrees in Literature. No, of course not.
In addition to dwilia’s having pointed out the abuse of this quote, I should note that it’s particularly amusing that someone willing to look down their nose at others for faux intellectualism can’t spell the title of a six-letter-name play.
I have done some research and both spellings are ubiquitous. Smile. Nod.