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“Ma. You once told me that memory is a choice. But if you were god, you'd know it's a flood.”
― On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
― On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
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“It is for your own good to love a dare-devil rather than a holy coward. A dare-devil is a unique devil, battling your fears, your pains, conquering your uncertainties, carrying you his arms, and flying out of the corrosive fire. The coward is a trickster serpent, which vanishes in your time of despair, and appears in time of equanimity.”
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“Language excites me. Irrational thought excites me. I spend most of my time listening instead of writing. A shard of language might come: a phrase, a word, an anagram, and I’d just keep it in my pocket, like a little seed, warming in my fist.”
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“No, sir, destruction is not necessary for art.” I said that, not because I was certain, but because I thought my saying it would help me believe it.”
― On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
― On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
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