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Jonas David is a writer living in the Seattle area. He is an editor at Lucent Dreaming magazine, and his stories have appeared in Fireside Magazine, Writing Disorder and others. Additional writing and info can be found at jonas-david.com, and you can follow him on Twitter @thejonasdavid.

wake up, you’re a slave

you’ve been lied to your whole life, my friend. a simple lie that we all take for granted as truth: ‘work hard and you’ll get ahead.’ the sad reality is even simpler, and all encompassing: ‘work hard, or you will be punished.’

i like to ask the question: ‘if you wanted to stop working, could you?’ and for the large majority of people, the answer is a clear no. no. if you stop working, food will be

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Friedrich Schiller
“Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain.”
Frederich Schiller

Chuck Klosterman
“Art and love are the same thing: It’s the process of seeing yourself in things that are not you.”
Chuck Klosterman, Killing Yourself to Live: 85% of a True Story

C.S. Lewis
“Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.”
C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

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“Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.”
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Oscar Wilde
“Art is the only serious thing in the world. And the artist is the only person who is never serious.”
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