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- Protect the time and space in which you write. Keep everybody away from it, even the people who are most important to you.
- Can't a rapper insist, like other artists, on a fictional reality, in which he is somehow still on the corner, despite occupying the penthouse suite?
- Don't we all know why nerds do what they do? To get money, which leads to popularity, which leads to girls.
- The roots of rap are originally ghetto-ised or extremely working class. So when you're an artist who's making something which isn't how its mainstream appearance…
- Well-run libraries are filled with people because what a good library offers cannot be easily found elsewhere: an indoor public space in which you do…
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