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Drifts
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I’m still obsessed with who is romanticized in literature as a hermit, and who, by staying inside, is viewed as simply crazy.
“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
“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
“You don’t need to look for anything. Believe me, your life — the one and only great adventure — is enough.” “What a cliché!” I replied.”
― Mac's Problem
― Mac's Problem
“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
“Living life as an artist is a practice.
You are either engaging in the practice
or you’re not.
It makes no sense to say you’re not good at it.
It’s like saying, “I’m not good at being a monk.”
You are either living as a monk or you’re not.
We tend to think of the artist’s work as the output.
The real work of the artist
is a way of being in the world.”
― The Creative Act: A Way of Being
You are either engaging in the practice
or you’re not.
It makes no sense to say you’re not good at it.
It’s like saying, “I’m not good at being a monk.”
You are either living as a monk or you’re not.
We tend to think of the artist’s work as the output.
The real work of the artist
is a way of being in the world.”
― The Creative Act: A Way of Being
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