Tim

“... when you go over it, cut out everything you can. The main thing is to know what to leave out. The way you tell whether you’re going good is by what you can throw away.”
― Earnest Hemingway

“I had no interest in existing as a martyr, forever defined by the worst things that had happened to me. I needed to believe that when your life has become a cage, you can loosen the bars and reclaim your freedom.”
― Suleika Jaouad, Between Two Kingdoms: A Memoir of a Life Interrupted

“An artist's role is to make you realize the doom and glory of knowing who you are and what you are.”
― James Baldwin

“...instead of praying for some new holy man to save you, learn the way to Hell in order to steer clear of it yourself.”
― Niccolo Machiavelli