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Morton talking w/ Sharon Olds: “…I said…, that I wanted to encourage students to respect the language. She looked startled, and she said, ‘Respect the language? I don’t want to respect the language. I want to…fuck the language!’
“…it was clear that.. she was talking about a kind of ecstatic communion.
“…I should have said, “Can’t you do both?”
— Jun 01, 2026 01:42PM
“…it was clear that.. she was talking about a kind of ecstatic communion.
“…I should have said, “Can’t you do both?”
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Chantal
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“When artists worry about where they stand, they take time and psychic energy away from the only thing that matters—the making of art.”
— Jun 18, 2026 01:04PM
Chantal
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“And the thought of putting my characters through predetermined paces—I’ll fortune to good fortune, or vice versa—held little appeal. I wanted to follow my characters around and see where life took them. I wanted my characters to discover their own fates.” —Me too!
— Jun 01, 2026 12:52PM
