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Patrick Cottrell

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Thomas Bernhard, Fiona Apple

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October 2011


top ten fiona apple songs

in no particular order

sullen girl
shadowboxer
on the bound
to your love
the way things are
not about love
jonathan
every single night
i want you to love me
tymps

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Sorry to Disrupt the Peace

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“The first thing you can do to contain your life is to just stop buying things.”
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“Why wouldn’t anyone admit that a life is not a life but a deathward existence?”
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“Pragmatic, I have always preferred to be in the background, unobserved; I preferred to play the role of the detached observer/receiver, the way one would live if one lived and spoke and shat inside a puffy white cloud floating along above the world harmlessly like a balloon.”
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“Perhaps part of the problem was I had surrounded myself with the fiction writers instead of the poets. I had chosen the wrong world to immerse myself in; the poets were nightclub docents of mourning and melancholia and the fiction writers were real estate agents.”
Patrick Cottrell, Afternoon Hours of a Hermit

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two acronymns, one love.
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