"Writing can be bad and still be part of something good. That 'art' is really 'artifact,' Exhibit A, Exhibit B, of something else: a person's whole experience and life. And that always there's the chance that this will fail. That things will not work out."

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Source : Chris Kraus (2000). “Aliens & anorexia”, Semiotext

Chris Kraus

#Art Quotes #Writing Quotes #Work Out Quotes

“What keeps me going is goals.”
“I never could understand - it was impossible for me to get my head around - what the furor was, what the sense of betrayal and anger and rage was about Bob Dylan's beginning to perform with a band, to play rock-and-roll, to get on the radio.”

Source : "Talkin’ Bob Dylan". Interview with James Mustich, www.barnesandnoble.com. October 19, 2010.
“I listen to the wind, to the wind of my soul Where I end up, well, I think only God really knows”
“My father said to remember your enemies as well as your friends, and don't trust either of them.”
“It is necessary to dig deep within oneself to discover the hidden grain of steel called will.”

Source : "A Brother Runs Past His Sorrow" by Juliet Macur, www.nytimes.com. November 2, 2014.
“There is a truth deep down inside of you that has been waiting for you to discover it, and that truth is this: you deserve all good things life has to offer.”
“Now people are really inspired to do a lot, and the fire got lit under our ***** to be more politically aware and be more politically involved in our community and pay more attention to what's going on.”
“There was something about clowns that was worse than zombies. (Or maybe something that was the same. When you see a zombie, you want to laugh at first. When you see a clown, most people get a little nervous. There's the pallor and the cakey mortician-style makeup, the shuffling and the untidy hair. But clowns were probably malicious, and they moved fast on those little bicycles and in those little crammed cars. Zombies weren't much of anything. They didn't carry musical instruments and they didn't care whether or not you laughed at them. You always knew what zombies wanted.)”

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