"Your life is already artful-waiting, just waiting, for you to make it art."

-- Toni Morrison

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“Writing is like carrying a fetus.”
“To idealize: all writing is a campaign against clichÃ©. Not just clichÃ©s of the pen but clichÃ©s of the mind and clichÃ©s of the heart.”

Source : Martin Amis (2014). “The War Against Cliche: Essays and Reviews 1971-2000”, p.15, Vintage
“Lives there the man with soul so dead as to disown the wish to merit the people's applause, and having uttered words worthy to be kept in cedar oil to latest times, to leave behind him rhymes that dread neither herrings nor frankincense. [Lat., An erit, qui velle recuset Os populi meruisse? et cedro digna locutus Linquere, nec scombros metuentia carmina nec thus.]”
“I have to say I regretted giving up animated movies.”
“I might be responsible for as many gay marriages as I am for heterosexual divorces.”
“The pictures feel as essential to me as the text. I was always interested in including pictures with writing.”

Source : The Believer interview, logger.believermag.com. March 19, 2013.
“US dollars should not be used anymore. Western institutions should be ignored. Totally new structures should be, and are being erected. China and Russia are, of course, in the lead of de-dollarization. All this is extremely important and can change the world, in the near future.”

Source : Source: www.counterpunch.org
“[My ideal] is being able to be outdoors, have a labor intensive life, and then have this other life, where I hop on a plane and go sing to people in Norway.”

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