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    Edward R. Murrow
    “We are in the same tent as the clowns and the freaks-that's show business.”
    ― Edward R. Murrow
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    Virginia Woolf
    “And the poem, I think, is only your voice speaking.”
    ― Virginia Woolf, The Waves
    tags: poem
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    Thomas Wolfe
    “The old hunger for voyages fed at his heart....To go alone...into strange cities; to meet strange people and to pass again before they could know him; to wander, like his own legend, across the earth--it seemed to him there could be no better thing than that.”
    ― Thomas Wolfe
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    Salvador Plascencia
    “I don’t know what they are called, the spaces between seconds– but I think of you always in those intervals.”
    ― Salvador Plascencia, The People of Paper
    tags: longing, love, sadness
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    Margaret Atwood
    “I would like to be the air that inhabits you for a moment only. I would like to be that unnoticed and that necessary.”
    ― Margaret Atwood
    tags: love, obsession, sleep
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    Amy Bloom
    “Carny people’d punch you in the face before they’d let you tell them your troubles and strangle their own selves before they’d tell you theirs.”
    ― Amy Bloom, White Houses
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    Tennessee Williams
    “A prayer for the wild at heart kept in cages.”
    ― Tennessee Williams, Stairs to the Roof
    tags: cages, prayer, wild-at-heart
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    Louise Glück
    “I think I can remember
    being dead. Many times, in winter,
    I approached Zeus. Tell me, I would ask him,
    how can I endure the earth?”
    ― Louise Glück, Averno
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    Clarice Lispector
    “Do not mourn the dead. They know what they are doing.”
    ― Clarice Lispector, The Hour of the Star
    tags: death, life
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    Clarice Lispector
    “You don't understand music: you hear it. So hear me with your whole body.”
    ― Clarice Lispector, The Stream of Life
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    Clarice Lispector
    “I work only with lost and founds.”
    ― Clarice Lispector
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    Carrie Brownstein
    “My favorite kind of musical experience is to feel afterward that your heart is filled up and transformed, like it is pumping a whole new kind of blood into your veins. This is what it is to be a fan: curious, open, desiring for connection, to feel like art has chosen you, claimed you as its witness.”
    ― Carrie Brownstein, Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl: A Memoir
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    Virginia Woolf
    “There was a star riding through clouds one night, & I said to the star, 'Consume me'.”
    ― Virginia Woolf, The Waves
    tags: clouds, star
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    Lauren Groff
    “Best to distrust this retrospective radiance: gold dust settles over memory and makes it shine.”
    ― Lauren Groff, Arcadia
    tags: memory
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    Virginia Woolf
    “Her eyes are pure stars, and her fingers, if they touch you, freeze you to the bone.”
    ― Virginia Woolf, Orlando
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    William S. Burroughs
    “Smash the control images. Smash the control machine.”
    ― William S. Burroughs, Dead City Radio
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    Charlotte Eriksson
    “There’s something about arriving in new cities, wandering empty streets with no destination. I will never lose the love for the arriving, but I'm born to leave.”
    ― Charlotte Eriksson, Empty Roads & Broken Bottles: in search for The Great Perhaps
    tags: arriving, cities, city, destination, empty, home, leave, leaving, left, lose, love, new, streets, touring, travel, traveller, travelling, vagabond, wanderer, wanderlust
    523 likes

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    Olivia Laing
    “You can be lonely anywhere, but there is a particular flavour to the loneliness that comes from living in a city, surrounded by millions of people.”
    ― Olivia Laing, The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone
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    Ansel Adams
    “You don't make a photograph just with a camera. You bring to the act of photography all the pictures you have seen, the books you have read, the music you have heard, the people you have loved.”
    ― Ansel Adams
    tags: art, photography
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    Ocean Vuong
    “Sometimes being offered tenderness feels like the very proof that you've been ruined.”
    ― Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
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    Ocean Vuong
    “I miss you more than I remember you.”
    ― Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
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    Ocean Vuong
    “I didn't know the cost
    of entering a song - was to lose
    your way back.”
    ― Ocean Vuong, Night Sky with Exit Wounds
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    Virginia Woolf
    “Alone, I often fall down into nothingness. I must push my foot stealthily lest I should fall off the edge of the world into nothingness. I have to bang my head against some hard door to call myself back to the body.”
    ― Virginia Woolf, The Waves
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    Arthur Miller
    “A good newspaper, I suppose, is a nation talking to itself.”
    ― Arthur Miller
    tags: commentary, culture, essay, news, society
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    Patti Smith
    “No one expected me. Everything awaited me.”
    ― Patti Smith, Just Kids
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    Virginia Woolf
    “I begin to long for some little language such as lovers use, broken words, inarticulate words, like the shuffling of feet on pavement.”
    ― Virginia Woolf, The Waves
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    Virginia Woolf
    “I feel a thousand capacities spring up in me. I am arch, gay, languid, melancholy by turns. I am rooted, but I flow.”
    ― Virginia Woolf, The Waves
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    Jean-Paul Sartre
    “Freedom is what we do with what is done to us.”
    ― Jean-Paul Sartre
    tags: freedom, life-experience, self-determination
    1670 likes

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    Jean-Paul Sartre
    “Only the guy who isn't rowing has time to rock the boat.”
    ― Jean-Paul Sartre
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  • #30
    W.S. Merwin
    “Separation

    Your absence has gone through me
    Like thread through a needle.
    Everything I do is stitched with its color.”
    ― W.S. Merwin
    tags: influence, loneliness, loss, poetry
    1712 likes



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