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Brian Butler
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In a world where, to use the expression of technologist Jenny Sundén, you’re writing yourself into existence, how you write is who you are.
“Sometimes, I feel discriminated against, but it does not make me angry. It merely astonishes me. How can any deny themselves the pleasure of my company? It’s beyond me.”
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“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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“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
“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!
“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
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