"An artist, if he's unselfish and passionate, is always a living protest. Just to open his mouth is to protest: against conformism, against what is official, public, or national, what everyone else feels comfortable with, so the moment he opens his mouth, an artist is engaged, because opening his mouth is always scandalous."

-- Pier Paolo Pasolini

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“Even though I always claimed that I didn't want to write about something - once I wasn't writing fiction, anyway; I think for me the change from fiction to poetry was that in fiction I was writing about something, in poetry I was writing something.”

Source : Interview with Shelley Jackson, believermag.com. January 1, 2007.
“I don't consider myself an artist. I consider myself a very opinionated man who uses words as fighting tools.”
“If it were not for hopes, the heart would break.”
“Sincere prayer is answered by unfailing grace.”
“Genius is an infinite capacity for pain.”
“Just because you're home, you don't have to answer the phone.”
“There is as much expression in the feet as in the hands.”
“Individuals approaching death often experience encounters with their dead relatives, who seem to welcome them to the next world. These deathbed visions are authentic and convincing; they are often followed by a state of euphoria and seem to ease the transition.”

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