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Slow Days, Fast Company: The World, the Flesh, and L.A.

by Eve Babitz

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Speak, Memory

by Vladimir Nabokov

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“I criticize by creation, not by finding fault.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

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“Every act of creation is first of all an act of destruction”
― Pablo Picasso

tags: art, artist, creativity-work

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“Tell me, he said, "What is this thing about time? Why is it better to be late than early? People are always saying, we must wait, we must wait. what are they waiting for?"

"Well […] I guess people wait in order to make sure of what they feel."

"And when you have waited—-has it made you sure?”
― James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room

tags: assurance, time

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“The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.”
― Albert Camus

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“for nothing is more unbearable, once one has it, than freedom.”
― James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room

tags: freedom

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