"I'm not an escapist, but the value of language is that it can create places that did not exist before. And so language for me doesn't reflect the world, it extends the world, so that it becomes larger and more fantastic and less mired in this school shooting bullshit. It actually builds a future - that's how evolution occurs."

-- Blake Butler

#School Quotes #Bullshit Quotes #Shooting Quotes

“Christmas is joy, religious joy, an inner joy of light and peace.”
“To the girls that gave me a hard time in high school. I want to say thank you. This is a victory for all the nerds out there.”
“...you don't need to be technically great, because if you have a strong philosophy people will be moved by your pictures regardless.”
“Nobody ever said that growing old would be easy. Just having to hold the newspaper out in your forties and then hair growing out of unusual parts of your body in your fifties. It's tough on the ego.”
“Come sit with me! Let us drink the holy wine of happiness.”
“I've always tried to stay out of the fray and not be an object of controversy.”
“I call it viewing from afar, they call it stalking.”
“I will always be open to receive my friends. I will not force myself on them.”

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