What people are ashamed of usually makes a good story.
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Books fall open, you fall in. When you climb out again, you’re a bit larger than you used to be.
I have the choice of being constantly active and happy or introspectively passive and sad. Or I can go mad by ricocheting in between.
Stay drunk on writing
You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.
A story has no beginning or end: arbitrarily one chooses that moment from which to look back or from which to look ahead.
Nothing is as obnoxious as other people’s luck.
I look in the mirror through the eyes of the child that was me.
What the really great artists do is they’re entirely themselves. They’re entirely themselves, they’ve got their own vision, they have their own way of fracturing reality, and if it’s authentic and true, you will feel it in your nerve endings.
Sometimes we get sad about things and we don’t like to tell other people that we are sad about them. We like to keep it a secret. Or sometimes, we are sad but we really don’t know why we are sad, so we say we aren’t sad but we really are.
Mark Haddon, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
(via anamorphosis-and-isolate)
Be obscure clearly.
