“Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead.”
When I worked on a magazine, I learned that there are many, many writers writing that can't write at all; and they keep on writing all the cliches and bromides and 1890 plots, and poems about Spring and poems about Love, and poems they think are modern because they are done in slang or staccato style, or written with all the 'i's' small.
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“Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead.”
“when we were kids laying around the lawn on our bellies we often talked about how we'd like to die and we all agreed on the same thing; we'd all like to die fucking (although none of us had done any fucking) and now that we are hardly kids any longer we think more about how not to die and although w...”
“Find what you love and let it kill you.”
“An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way.”
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