"I have had to learn the simplest things last. Which made for difficulties."

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Source : Charles Olson (1993). “Selected Poems of Charles Olson”, p.101, Univ of California Press

Charles Olson

#Lasts Quotes #Made Quotes #Difficulty Quotes

“I don't know where I end and the world begins. My best guess? Skin. It's the only actual boundary between the body and the world, between a body and any other body.”
“The on and off thing is kind of annoying, isn't it? First with Cole, now with Gavin. "Maybe you need a tune up." I rolled my eyes. "I'll just pop into the supernatural ability repair shop sometime tomorrow." He grinned, his fingers tracing the line of my jaw.”
“I do not know exactly why, but it seems to me that images do not belong to anybody but are instead there, at the disposal of all.”
“Buy American Doesnâ€™t Sell Well Anymore Because It Means Give A Copy To The NSA”
“I try to not be self-conscious in my writing process.”
“I miss you so much your absence causes me, at times, accute pain. I don't mean sexually. I mean in connection with my writing.”
“Swallow the stars until you are one with the universe, with all-pervading universal life.”
“Thanks to capitalism, the importance placed on beauty has never been so manipulated. We are the guinea pigs force-fed ads that tell us how pathetic we are: that we will never be loved, happy or valuable unless we have the body, the face, the hair, even the personality that will apparently be ours, if only we buy their products.”

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