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Annie Dillard
“We have not yet encountered any god who is as merciful as a man who flicks a beetle over on its feet.”
Annie Dillard, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek

Jenny Boully
“The important of the beginning is to make possible the love affair; the importance of the ending is to make impossible the love affair.”
Jenny Boully, Betwixt-and-Between: Essays on the Writing Life

David Wojnarowicz
“There is really no difference between memory and sight, fantasy and actual vision. Vision is made of subtle fragmented movements of the eye. These fragmented pieces of the world are turned and pressed into memory before they can register in the brain. Fantasized images are actually made up of millions of disjointed observations collected and collated into the forms and textures of thought.”
David Wojnarowicz, Close to the Knives: A Memoir of Disintegration

Simone Weil
“Imaginary evil is romantic and varied; real evil is gloomy, monotonous, barren, boring. Imaginary good is boring; real good is always new, marvelous, intoxicating.”
Simone Weil

Annie Dillard
“One of the things I know about writing is this: spend it all, shoot it, play it, lose it, all, right away, every time. Do not hoard what seems good for a later place in the book or for another book; give it, give it all, give it now. The impulse to save something good for a better place later is the signal to spend it now. Something more will arise for later, something better. These things fill from behind, from beneath, like well water. Similarly, the impulse to keep to yourself what you have learned is not only shameful, it is destructive. Anything you do not give freely and abundantly becomes lost to you. You open your safe and find ashes.”
Annie Dillard, The Writing Life: The Classic Essay Collection on the Creative Process

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