But what if you discover that the price of purpose is to render invisible so many other things?
“Sometimes I feel as if we live in hell and don’t even realize it. The lacerations are endless. The lies we accept, the rituals we perform. All these useless acts.”
― Hummingbird Salamander
― Hummingbird Salamander
“We have built so many toxic constructs, we cannot see through the latticework. We have built so many mirrors, there are no windows to shatter.”
― Hummingbird Salamander
― Hummingbird Salamander
“The red tears of tracers shrieked through the thoroughfares and stray bullets cratered the faces of banks, churches, condos, and franchises, every place of worship a city has to offer.”
― Zone One
― Zone One
“Hadn’t the hummingbird been a kind of miracle? Hadn’t it diminished us not to see this as a miracle and protect it?”
― Hummingbird Salamander
― Hummingbird Salamander
“Thank you for your service, for your many years. Now take your weird art and get the fuck out.”
― Authority
― Authority
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