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• Art Gropes. It stalks like a hunter lost in the woods, listening to itself and to everything around it, unsure of itself,…
• The image-managers encourage the individual to fashion himself into a smooth coin, negotiable in any market.
• Talking, talking. Spinning a web of words, pale walls of dreams, between myself and all I see.
• They watch on, evil, incredibly stupid, enjoying my destruction. 'Poor Grendel's had an accident,' I whisper. 'So may you all.
• ...ultimately it come down to, are you making or are you destroying? If you try very hard to create ways of living,…
• People will tell you that writing is too difficult, that it's impossible to get your work published, that you might as well…
• Art, of course, is a way of thinking, a way of mining reality.
• As every writer knows... there is something mysterious about the writer's ability, on any given day, to write. When the juices are…
• It would be, for me, mere pointless pleasure, an illusion of order for this one frail, foolish, flicker-flash in the long dull…
• I couldn't go on, too conscious all at once of my whispering, my eternal posturing, always transforming the world with words--changing nothing.
• Our noblest hopes grow teeth and pursue us like tigers.
• There is no limit to desire but desire's needs.

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