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“Just because you are soft doesn't mean you are not a force. Honey and wildfire are both the colour gold.”
― Edge of Wonder: Notes from the Wildness of Being
― Edge of Wonder: Notes from the Wildness of Being
“Tell me every terrible thing you ever did, and let me love you anyway.”
― Collected Poems
― Collected Poems
“I want her to melt into me, like butter on toast. I want to absorb her and walk around for the rest of my days with her encased in my skin.
I want.”
― Water for Elephants
I want.”
― Water for Elephants
“The less I needed, the better I felt.”
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“I remembered my New
Orleans days, living on two five-cent candy bars a day for weeks at a time in order to have leisure to
write. But starvation, unfortunately, didn't improve art. It only hindered it. A man's soul was rooted in
his stomach. A man could write much better after eating a porterhouse steak and drinking a pint of
whiskey than he could ever write after eating a nickel candy bar. The myth of the starving artist was a
hoax.”
― Factotum
Orleans days, living on two five-cent candy bars a day for weeks at a time in order to have leisure to
write. But starvation, unfortunately, didn't improve art. It only hindered it. A man's soul was rooted in
his stomach. A man could write much better after eating a porterhouse steak and drinking a pint of
whiskey than he could ever write after eating a nickel candy bar. The myth of the starving artist was a
hoax.”
― Factotum
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