"Creating art and creating ourselves are the same act; art, world, ourselves - these are continuous with one another."

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Source : Deena Metzger (2009). “Writing for Your Life: Discovering the Story of Your Life's Jou”, p.8, Harper Collins

Deena Metzger

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“I would not say I'm an aggressive shopper. I want to be; I aspire to be an aggressive shopper. I am a meek, meek shopper.”
“Shoot up everything except a school or a playground”
“Democrats never agree on anything, that's why they're Democrats. If they agreed with each other, they would be Republicans.”
“As poets, we're writing into the void, and we're not writing to be bestsellers. Whatever individual responses we get, whether at a reading, by a conversation or a letter, mean the world.”
“Being an activist is about getting things done. It's not about standing around shaking your fist in anger.”
“As there are more online archives of improvised music, it becomes more like the daily practice of playing it. It lessens the idea of there being masterpieces of improvised music through benchmark recordings.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“Faith is what is left after all your beliefs have been blown to hell.”
“Cars are little privacy cocoons that we take with us. If you could refuel while driving you could, theoretically, stay moving forever.”

Source : Barry Lyga (2009). “Boy Toy”, p.34, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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