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“I am the court lobster”

“What would you do even if you knew that you might very well fail?”

“My soul, when I tend to i, is a far more expansive and fascinating source of guidance than my ego will ever be, because my soul desires only one thing: wonder”

“Your creative work is not your baby; if anything, you are its baby”

“If the art legitimates cruelty, I think the art is not worth having” Adam Phillips

“but nobody ever brought up the wages of virtue. The toll of trying really really hard to be good in a game that’s totally rigged against goodness”

“Humans are just a long emptiness waiting to be filled”

“But you can live a whole life not doing any of that stuff and still avoid doing any good”

“suspended yourself in dying”

we’ve always held the same obnoxious, rotten souls

We have difficulty seeing our present selves in history the same way we view our past and future selves

“Death has long overtaken Ali’s mind; now, it had simply overtaken his body”

“There’s no difference between a good guy and a bad guy behaving like a good guy. In fact, I think God loves that second guy a little more.”

if I am not actively creating something, then I am probably actively destroying something (myself, a relationship, or my own peace of mind)

There is no love which does not become help - Paul Tillich

[about creative motive being helping others] don’t make it your sole creative motive, because we will feel the weight of your heavy intention, and it will put a strain upon our souls

on the next page “if your subject matter is darker and more serious, I would prefer that you made your art in order to save yourself”

your soul has been waiting for you to wake up to your own existence for years

“No genuine book has a first page. Like the rustling of the forest, it is begotten God knows where, and it grows and it rolls, arousing the dense wilds of the forest until suddenly… it begins to speak with all the treetops at once” -Boris Pasternak

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holy shit