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- Standard Time
- Desperation or Revenge
- I don’t trust an abstract painter unless I know th...
- I wouldn’t have wanted anyone to teach me how to w...
- Games
- Krishnamurti on Passion
- and then no one wants the person
- Nagi's Lime Chicken & Asian Slaw
- Feigning Death
- The moment you say you are free, you are not free,...
- Freedom can only come about when there is immense ...
- family narrative—the story we were told (or sold) ...
- he'd removed himself from the world
- as if a donut could have curative powers
- Hello, suffering, I am here with you.
- I believe in staying open to possibility. What is ...
- it's hard to know
- Only the magic and the dream are true — all the re...
- streets that are friendly, streets that aren't
- I am a stranger and I always will be
- Today I must be very careful, today I have left my...
- I like shape very much. A novel has to have shape,...
- Tina Turner
- Not that she objected to solitude. Quite the contr...
- You must keep feeding the lake.
- Something came out from my heart into my throat an...
- A room is, after all, a place where you hide from ...
- The good life is not one immune to sadness but one...
- Turn your wounds into wisdom.
- When you’re happy you enjoy the music, but when yo...
- There are two medicines for all ills: time and sil...
- Nobody can read like a writer
- Who knows but that, on the lower frequencies, I sp...
- don’t worry about it if you write out of sadness o...
- So why do I write, torturing myself to put it down?
- Good fiction is made of that which is real, and re...
- And I knew that it was better to live out one's ab...
- Perhaps to lose a sense of where you are implies t...
- there are few things in the world as dangerous as ...
- Power doesn't have to show off. Power is confident...
- Not being understood may be taken as a sign that t...
- People only get really interesting when they start...
- Most of what makes a book 'good' is that we are re...
- The Pomodoro Technique
- A Meaningful Silence
- Woodie Guthrie's Guitar
- You got to ride it like you find it.
- Any fool can make something complicated. It takes ...
- Then I got a little braver
- All of my words, if not well put nor well taken, a...
- Whiskey, Ribs and Whipped Cream
- Woody Guthrie: I hate a song that makes you think ...
- full of nuance and contradiction
- Writing is visual—it catches the eye
- Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplis...
- Dream
- A.M. Homes, The Mistress's Daughter
- When a name is given to a child, it is believed th...
- “We know things about ourselves that we don’t want...
- Feed your Inner Life
- Sometimes I hear a line in a poem and see a paint...
- My wife whose shoulders are champagne
- Tell me whom you haunt and I’ll tell you who you a...
- Love is when you meet someone who tells you someth...
- Life’s greatest gift is the freedom it leaves you ...
- Peculiar Mormyrid Surrealist Journal
- The man who cannot visualize a horse galloping on ...
- I tell myself all kinds of stories
- Nothing that surrounds us is object, all is subjec...
- We Imagine
- André Breton
- The important thing is that man is lost in time, i...
- May night continue to fall upon the orchestra.
- Keep reminding yourself that literature is one of ...
- The mind, placed before any kind of difficulty, ca...
- Word
- I myself shall continue living in my glass house w...
- Johann Christoph Pezel & Philadelphia Brass
- Chop your own wood and it will warm you twice.
- Welcome to Jurgesville
- J.Krishnamurti
- I wrote because I thought I had nothing to say and...
- What is Sacred?
- This Morning
- Bandaloop Dance Company
- James Baldwin
- The Brutal Past and Uncertain Future of Native Ado...
- Laugh to Tears: Total Landscaping
- J. Krishnamurti
- Stockade
- Jeans
- I have no idea who these people are
- People are fed by the food industry, which pays no...
- You can best serve civilization by being against w...
- Two Muses
- Wendell Berry
- Telling a story is like reaching into a granaryful...
- You are your own beginning.
- Dare to live the life you have dreamed for yoursel...
- Courage
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