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In going where you have to go, and doing what you have to do, and seeing what you have to see, you dull and blunt the instrument you write with. But I would rather have it bent and dull and know I had to put it on the grindstone again and hammer it into shape and put a whetstone to it, and know that I had something to write about, than to have it bright and shining and nothing to say, or smooth and well-oiled in the closet, but unused.
“Conversation is going to be so difficult,”
The fear was still there like a cold slimy hollow in all the emptiness where once his confidence had been and it made him feel sick.
a brave man is always frightened three times by a lion; when he first sees his track, when he first hears him roar and when he first confronts him.
He lived in a small, tight, professional world of personal efficiency, nightly alcoholic triumph, and insolence.
He died, as the Spanish phrase has it, full of illusions. He had not had time in his life to lose any of them,
piombo
Piombo, physics, fish.
literary, scientific, earthy
By God, he was the biggest one I ever heard of.
Their color was not gone yet.
rod,
What is more earthly than power? Nobility? Courage? Not the *ability to overcome* per say but the fact that one was forced, by nature, to experience something. To breathe through empathy, to laugh... when you shouldn't.
“The bigger they are, the more meat for the poor.”
If he thought about it, he would be gone.
being wounded, after all, was really an accident.
THE
Looking dangerous is not the same thing as being dangerous.
“Should we have another drink?” “All right.”
“Hey, Al, bright boy says he wouldn’t say what he thinks it’s all about.”
Whats the point of knowing things if you cant talk about them?
somebody.
There are no consequences in this house, ever.
“Well, I don’t mind him,” Guy said—“except the way he leans out on the turns.”
country or the people.
HOW
Writing is like cooking meat, fire gets the work done faster, clearing the raw body of its toxins.
ARE
I wanna stuff my ears with your wrist veins, knot them up, and then rip it with molten tension.
YOU
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If you choke me, I might just punch you.
“He’s nervous and crabby,” I said. “He’s a good fellow, Soldier.”
A boy
Why are people pissed?
table.
Paranoia comes from self delusion. When we exaggerate meaning.
them.
We have outsourced our libido and ego to our internet personalities.
sun.
A relief from the strain and annoyance of whim.
Our deepest convictions—will Science upset them? Our civilization—is it inferior to older orders of things?
IT
Words are orders from the past.
WAS
What is intelligence? Hot vs Cold. Warmth vs chill. I need a break Jesus. The devil's lettuce. Despacito. Rummage. Stupidity is using a tool to self-inflict. Personality is a spectrum of hot and cold, (think communal favor), Communication is a search engine. Hallucination is pride (Think egoic delusion). Curiosity killed the cat. An artist devises the glory of trade.
LATE
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We were programmed to stop at Jesus.
AND
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Ideal rotations are thought tracks. Different rates of appearance and different in potency of physical effect.
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Personality is different for everyone so we must measure it as a meter of passion that we move between, our personality is based on how fiery or how chill we are.
IN
Rigid vs fluid train of thought . Think hemingway
“As an aid to memory,” he said.
Thinking
Gentlemen, either you must govern—or you must be governed. That is all, gentlemen. Good-day.”
upset.”
In
Power is death's illusion. What is libidinal overflow? Is it evil?
They didn’t know we didn’t want them, but we didn’t have nothing to do with them, and after a while they went away.”
Religion is the opium of the people.
Hemingway thinks aphorisms are stupid.
“You do not believe in education?” “No,” said Mr. Frazer. “In knowledge, yes.”
Revolution, Mr. Frazer thought, is no opium. Revolution is a catharsis; an ecstasy which can only be prolonged by tyranny. The opiums are for before and for after. He was thinking well, a little too well.
“You aren’t treating me square,” he said. “Who did you treat square, you rummy?” I told him. “You’d doublecross your own mother.”
When they were scared they got excited, and when they got excited they wanted to kill somebody.
He was thinking that he had never really felt pain before.
She’s a sea boat all right.
and the always-dirty desire to see how people act under an emotional conflict, that makes writers such attractive friends.
You have to lie very often in a war and when you have to lie you should do it quickly and as well as you can.
Well, this shooting had made him look about ten years younger.
you are often deceived by hope and optimism.
