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Matt Barker
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Writing is hard work. A clear sentence is no accident. Very few sentences come out right the first time, or even the third time. Remember this in moments of despair. If you find that writing is hard, it’s because it is hard.
“I wanted people to understand that we are a trash fire of a species, but also most people are pretty cool.”
― A Beautifully Foolish Endeavor
― A Beautifully Foolish Endeavor
“Whilst we play life as a game, our conscious experience of it takes the form of a story.”
― The Status Game: On Human Life and How to Play It
― The Status Game: On Human Life and How to Play It
“This is life, and I will not lie by saying every day will be sunshine. But there will be sunshine again, and that is a very different thing to say. That is truth.”
― Rhythm of War
― Rhythm of War
“City folk, particularly politicians, were intimidated by small arms. They preferred to kill people with more modern weapons, like poverty and despair.”
― The Lost Metal
― The Lost Metal
“He sat staring at the door for a long time. He wasn’t wearing a hat, which meant he had to just be himself. The true him, the one that knew this pain. They’d ridden together on many a dusty path. This pain had been his invisible friend since childhood.
The pain of knowing what he really was.
The pain of being worthless.”
― The Lost Metal
The pain of knowing what he really was.
The pain of being worthless.”
― The Lost Metal
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