Audrey Emanuel

“Decades later, in a magazine I bought from a garage sale as a teenager, Tori Amos said she would've given her arm to have written "A Case of You." I'm always struck by this notion. Any writer who's ever been warned off a man wishes they'd written "A Case of You." But what inspires this particular compliment, this feeling of not just loving a song, or any work of art, but longing to have created it yourself? It happens when you identify so intensely with the work it feels wrong somehow - sad, almost- that is didn't come from your own brain. Like if you had arrived at this expression yourself, you would have more effectively metastasized the emotions that made you love the song so much.”
― Holly Brickley, Deep Cuts

“Every effect that one produces gives one an enemy. To be popular one must be a mediocrity.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“Friendship makes thieves of us all”
― Patti Smith, M Train

“When one has lived so much for others it is quite hard to turn oneself back again— to live for oneself.”
― Simone de Beauvoir, The Woman Destroyed