“Art is what we leave of ourselves in other people.”
― My Friends
― My Friends
“I don’t try to protect the memory of tonight from tragedy by pretending it isn’t lovely”
― The Other Side of Now
― The Other Side of Now
“But hope is a strange partner. It keeps you holding on to a thread, even as you watch it unravel.”
― The Assignment
― The Assignment
“You can tell a lot about a person by the way they act when they are left waiting too long.”
― First Lie Wins
― First Lie Wins
“Decades later, in a magazine I bought from a garage sale as a teenager, Tori Amos said she would've given her arm to have written "A Case of You." I'm always struck by this notion. Any writer who's ever been warned off a man wishes they'd written "A Case of You." But what inspires this particular compliment, this feeling of not just loving a song, or any work of art, but longing to have created it yourself? It happens when you identify so intensely with the work it feels wrong somehow - sad, almost- that is didn't come from your own brain. Like if you had arrived at this expression yourself, you would have more effectively metastasized the emotions that made you love the song so much.”
― Deep Cuts
― Deep Cuts
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