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In times of crisis, artists have often turned to the figure.
“in literature, what we call progress doesn’t exist, just as, for example, we don’t get better at dreaming over time:”
― Mac's Problem
― Mac's Problem
“First find out what you are capable of, then decide who you are.”
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“In the new quiet I heard the sea as if my ears were laid against the ocean floor. I could hear everything. The rumbling earthquake of a ship and spider crabs moving between weeds.”
― Hot Milk
― Hot Milk
“Bad art teaches you as much as good art, maybe more.”
― How to Be an Artist
― How to Be an Artist
“over the imaginary solitude of others, what others do when they are alone, how they deal with the vastness and ephemerality of the day, which I think is for me increasingly the meaning of and crisis of art.”
― Drifts
― Drifts
The Virginia Woolf Reading Group
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This group is for anyone who knows (or wants to know) about Virginia Woolf. If you have read all her works or none, loved her books or hated them, t ...more
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Dedicated to the reading and discovering of outstanding literature on contemporary art.
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A place for people who love to read about and/or are compelled to write out the natural world. Share and discuss books that move you, anger you, chang ...more
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