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Greg Hernandez
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Broken River
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It used to feel like something, finishing a book. She would time it, announce its proximity to completion, create an opportunity for celebration. Champagne would be chilling in the refrigerator, or reservations made for someplace nice to
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It’s not always like this butI love the way Lennon describes the diminishing returns of artistic process.
“THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS AN EMPTY SPACE OR AN EMPTY TIME. THERE IS ALWAYS SOMETHING TO SEE, SOMETHING TO HEAR. IN FACT, TRY AS WE MAY TO MAKE A SILENCE, WE CANNOT.”
― You Are an Artist: Assignments to Spark Creation
― You Are an Artist: Assignments to Spark Creation
“Forgiveness lives alone and far off down the road, but bitterness and art are close, gossipy neighbors, sharing the same clothesline, hanging out their things, getting their laundry confused.”
― Self-Help
― Self-Help
“He had passed beyond the lure of champagne and oysters, beyond the need of light and space. He was like the dodo which buries its head in the sand and whistles out of its asshole.”
― Tropic of Capricorn
― Tropic of Capricorn
“All courses of action are risky, so prudence is not in avoiding danger (it's impossible), but calculating risk and acting decisively. Make mistakes of ambition and not mistakes of sloth. Develop the strength to do bold things, not the strength to suffer.”
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“Why do the skeletons dance so ecstatically, I wonder. Is it the fall of the world? Is it the dance of death which has been so often heralded? To see millions of skeletons dancing in the snow while the city founders is an awesome sight.”
― Tropic of Capricorn
― Tropic of Capricorn
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