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Hubert Selby Jr.
“I was sitting at home and had a profound experience. I experienced, in all of my Being, that someday I was going to die, and it wouldn't be like it had been happening, almost dying but somehow staying alive, but I would just die! And two things would happen right before I died: I would regret my entire life; I would want to live it over again. This terrified me. The thought that I would live my entire life, look at it and realize I blew it forced me to do something with my life.”
Hubert Selby, Jr.

Sherwood Anderson
“I thought of a lot of things to do, but they wouldn't work. They all hurt some one else.”
Sherwood Anderson, Winesburg, Ohio

Paul Auster
“Everything is connected to everything else, every story overlaps with every other story.”
Paul Auster, Leviathan

Tao Lin
“On average, since the urge to kill myself isn't so strong that I actually kill myself, the world is worth living in.”
Tao Lin, Taipei

Hubert Selby Jr.
“Time has to pass. But sometimes its so goddamn long. Sometimes it just seems to drag and drag and weigh a ton. And hang on you like a monkey. Like its going to suck the blood out of you. Or squeeze your guts out. And sometimes it flies. And is gone somewhere, somehow, before you know it was even here. As if time is only here to make you miserable. That's the only reason for time. To squeeze you. Crush you. To tie you up in knots and make you fucking miserable.”
Hubert Selby Jr., The Room
tags: time

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