Brian Butler
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I see now that the place I’ve been yearning for is my own imagination.
“I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me.”
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“There's a certain point in life at which you realise it's no longer interesting that time goes forward – or rather, that its forward-going-ness has been the central plank of life's illusion, and that while you were waiting to see what was going to happen next, you were steadily being robbed of all you had. Language is the only thing capable of stopping the flow of time, because it exists in time, is made of time, yet it is eternal – or can be.”
― Second Place
― Second Place
“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, who had ever been alive.”
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“Painting saved me, but I can’t say I loved painting. I painted because I needed to. What I really loved, what I love, is having-painted. That was the high. Making something that would never have existed in the entirety of humanity had I not been there at that specific moment to make it.”
― Martyr!
― Martyr!
“thought I was done with this torture, but this is a bad day when thoughts slide along memories, sharpening them like knives.”
― The Daughter
― The Daughter
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