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“She was resting at a table between numbers in the Greek nightclub where she was dancing. A little of the stage light touched her. She was very frail. She seemed to be thinking about something far away, waiting patiently for somebody to destroy her.”
― Denis Johnson, Jesus’ Son

“In a certain sense this was true, and truth is always true in a certain sense;”
― Olga Tokarczuk, Flights

“Quotations in my work are like wayside robbers who leap out armed and relieve the stroller of his convictions.”
― Walter Benjamin, One Way Street And Other Writings

“Write naked. That means to write what you would never say.
Write in blood. As if ink is so precious you can’t waste it.
Write in exile, as if you are never going to get home again, and you have to call back every detail.”
― Denis Johnson