"Go out in the woods, go out. If you don't go out in the woods nothing will ever happen and your life will never begin."

-- Clarissa Pinkola Estes

“Human relationships are rich and they're messy and they're demanding. And we clean them up with technology. Texting, email, posting, all of these things let us present the self as we want to be. We get to edit, and that means we get to delete, and that means we get to retouch, the face, the voice, the flesh, the body -- not too little, not too much, just right.”
“The thinking mind is best controlled by the imagination.”

Source : Carson McCullers (2005). “The Mortgaged Heart: Selected Writings”, p.277, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“A dream is the mind's way of answering a question it hasn't yet figured out how to ask.”
“I don't have a lot of discipline.”
“Have you ever sabotaged yourself? Ever come close to victory only to slide back into the jaws of defeat? When you are fighting yourself, you can't win.”
“Real music is what I consider to be uncorporatized music, the music that just happens. I feel like that's not a very well-known thing.”

Source : "Missed Opportunities". Pitchfork Interview, pitchfork.com.
“There's a tendency to fall into certain habits, but if you tell yourself not to do that and if you don't stay there too long - I think if you start staying for too long, you tend to fall into certain bad habits, and I tried not to do that.”
“My problem is that I have been persecuted by an integer.”

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