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There is a place that pain takes you. I haven’t known this place before. That is a privilege, isn’t it? But I know it well now. It is both vast and minuscule. It is as far as my mind can travel and as contained as the blades of grass under ...more
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Charles Bukowski
“To create art means
to be crazy alone
forever.”
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Tim Kreider
“This is one reason people need to believe in God—because we want someone to know us, truly, all the way through, even the worst of us.”
Tim Kreider, We Learn Nothing

Tim Kreider
“God, how I long to go out west again someday—to drive some blue highway in Nevada or Utah until there’s absolutely nothing around me, then stop the car, in the middle of the road, maybe, and get out and just stand there, where I can see from one horizon to the other, and smell the air and feel the sun and listen to the silence of the desert. I have this idea that if I could do this, time might hold still for a second, and I would know, for just a moment, what it feels like to be here.”
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Jarod Kintz
“My face doesn’t match my personality. Maybe it would if instead of a mouth I had an asshole in its place.
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Jarod Kintz, This Book Has No Title

Karl Ove Knausgård
“For the heart, life is simple: it beats for as long as it can. Then it stops.”
Karl Ove Knausgård, Min kamp 1

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