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A.P. Sweet

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Born

in Yuba City, The United States

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Poetry, Literature & Fiction, Philosophy

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Galway Kinnell, Albert Camus, Chuck Palahniuk ...more

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June 2011

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The only formal training I have ever received for writing is what I found in the words of other authors. I write what I feel is true to me. I hold no degree in literature. I only hold the key to my mind.

My goal is to disregard criticism and embrace creativity at all times.

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Average rating: 4.04 · 23 ratings · 12 reviews · 4 distinct works

	dead, but dreaming 4.08 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 2011 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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I'm still working on the new collection of poems. I'm not pleased with it yet. I can't release anything I'm not proud of. I'm also working on a novel. Please be patient with me.

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Quotes by A.P. Sweet (?)

“I cry often.
I cry and cleanse my
face with my tears and
swim to the center
of it all.
A center that
I have written about a
thousand times, forever etched
into the porcelain.”
― A.P. Sweet, dead, but dreaming

tags: cleanse, crying, swim, tears, writing

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“runaway my phantom bride
and take your bouquet of poisonous flowers
float away specter
and take the rest of my desire”
― A.P. Sweet, The Abattoir of Silence

tags: bride, desire, phantom, poisonous, runaway

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“The moon makes love
to the ocean
and
in this holy conception it gives birth
to a little tide.”
― A.P. Sweet, dead, but dreaming

tags: conception, love, moon, ocean, tide

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A.P.’s Quotes

“There’s nothing more embarrassing than a person who tries to guess what the great American public would like, makes a compromise for the first time, and falls flat on his face… I would rather be a failure on my own terms than a success on someone else’s. That’s a difficult statement to live up to, but then I’ve always believed that the way you affect your audience is more important than how many of them are there.”
― Tom Waits

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“If the only significant history of human thought were to be written, it would have to be the history of its successive regrets and its impotences.”
― Albert Camus

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“Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.”
― Salvador Dalí

tags: art

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“The way I feel about music is that there is no right and wrong; only true and false.”
― Fiona Apple

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“My father's a preacher, my mother's a teacher, thus . . . I rhyme.”
― Saul Williams

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