Jessica Webster

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Jessica is Currently Reading

Jessica Webster is currently reading

Hopscotch

by Julio Cortázar

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May 27, 2020 06:13AM

Jessica’s Quotes

“When I write, I feel like an armless, legless man with a crayon in his mouth.”
― Kurt Vonnegut

tags: crayon, quip, writing

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“We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize truth at least the truth that is given us to understand. The artist must know the manner whereby to convince others of the truthfulness of his lies.”
― Pablo Picasso

tags: art, lies, truth

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“They wouldn't be so cocky if they knew what me and the moon have going.”
― Ken Kesey, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest

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“An unthinkable thought is not one that hasn't occurred to somebody, nor is it a thought that somebody considers to be wrong. An unthinkable thought threatens a person's entire existence and is therefore subversive and consequently can be thought of and has been thought of, but has been pushed out of the mind's currency and subsumed into its margins where it festers. Dark nights of the soul are lit by inconceivable ideas. Any story may draw its source from the power of an unthinkable thought.”
― Charles Baxter, The Art of Subtext: Beyond Plot

tags: writing

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