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“A work of art encountered as a work of art is an experience, not a statement or an answer to a question. Art is not only about something; it is something. A work of art is a thing _in_ the world, not just a text or commentary _on_ the world.”
― Against Interpretation and Other Essays
― Against Interpretation and Other Essays
“So I won't hang around in my hospital shift,
repeating The Black Mass and all of it.
I say Live, Live because of the sun,
the dream, the excitable gift.”
― Live or Die
repeating The Black Mass and all of it.
I say Live, Live because of the sun,
the dream, the excitable gift.”
― Live or Die
“May I be awake enough to notice when love appears and bold enough to pursue it without knowing where it will end”
― Between Two Kingdoms: A Memoir of a Life Interrupted
― Between Two Kingdoms: A Memoir of a Life Interrupted
“Don’t let anybody, anybody convince you this is the way the world is and therefore must be. It must be the way it ought to be.”
― The Source of Self-Regard: Selected Essays, Speeches, and Meditations
― The Source of Self-Regard: Selected Essays, Speeches, and Meditations
“The more important point is that the impulse to escape our lives is universe, and hardly worth vilifying. Inhabiting any life always involves reckoning with the urge to abandon it - through daydreaming; through storytelling; through the ecstasies of art and music, hard drugs, adultery, a smartphone screen. These forms of "leaving" aren't the opposite of authentic presence. They are simply one of its symptoms - the way love contains conflict, intimacy contains distance, and faith contains doubt.”
― Make It Scream, Make It Burn
― Make It Scream, Make It Burn
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