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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.”
― Kaveh Akbar, Martyr!

“It came to her that in the scenario of her life this would be what was called an obligatory scene, and she wondered ... just how long the scene would play.”
― Joan Didion, Play It As It Lays