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“Everybody should read fiction… I don’t think serious fiction is written for a few people. I think we live in a stupid culture that won’t educate its people to read these things. It would be a much more interesting place if it would. And it’s not just that mechanics and plumbers don’t read literary fiction, it’s that doctors and lawyers don’t read literary fiction. It has nothing to do with class, it has to do with an anti-intellectual culture that doesn’t trust art.”
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“Our ignorance often
accelerates us.
So much of what we know
of motion
propelled by what we don’t know
about impact.”
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accelerates us.
So much of what we know
of motion
propelled by what we don’t know
about impact.”
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“the only
animal who kills from a distance, noise for a voice
and noise for a home, for whom all places are alike.”
― Pigeon: Poems
animal who kills from a distance, noise for a voice
and noise for a home, for whom all places are alike.”
― Pigeon: Poems
“The honourable life
is like timing. One might not have the talent for it.
Take this guy up ahead who's driven 45 minutes
with his turn signal on through this jurisdiction of few exits,
as if the hope of a left is all he's got now
in his one chance on this earth.”
― Pigeon: Poems
is like timing. One might not have the talent for it.
Take this guy up ahead who's driven 45 minutes
with his turn signal on through this jurisdiction of few exits,
as if the hope of a left is all he's got now
in his one chance on this earth.”
― Pigeon: Poems
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