"I still get nightmares. In fact, I get them so often I should be used to them by now. I'm not. No one ever really gets used to nightmares."

-- Mark Z. Danielewski

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“One interviewer asked me: 'How do you feel that you've betrayed your father?' That wasn't really very cool.”
“Mothers and daughters have that rivalry thing.”
“Most young people are or will soon enough be workers. They can help to energize and radicalize the workers' movement. And what revolution has ever succeeded without youth?”
“Painters hate having to explain what their work is about. They always say, 'It's whatever you want it to be' - because I think that's their intention, to connect with each person's subconscious, and not to try and dictate.”
“No pang that is suffered by man or woman upon the earth will be without its compensating effect . . . if it be met with patience.”
“A diamond is a piece of coal that stuck to the job”
“Finally we are being told the truth: life isnâ€™t always easy and pleasant. We already know this to be true, but somehow we tend to go through life thinking that there is something wrong with us when we experience sadness, grief, and physical and emotional pain. The first truth points out that this is just the way it is. There is nothing wrong with you: you have just been born into a realm where pain is a given.”

Source : Noah Levine (2009). “Against the Stream: A Buddhist Manual for Spiritual Revolutionaries”, p.19, Harper Collins
“An odd contradiction, if the layman were correct in his unconscious assumption that an artist begins with reality and ends with art: the converse is true - to the degree that this dichotomy has any truth - the artist begins with art, and through it arrives at reality.”

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