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“Everything I learned about life or relationships, I learned at the movies. Movies that caused me pain or joy of such intensity that I can barely breathe, are the ones I love the most.” – Nan Goldin, photographer

“The great delusion of modernity, is that the laws of nature explain the universe for us. The laws of nature describe the universe, they describe the regularities. But they explain nothing.” –Ludwig Wittgenstein

“Who but the artist has the power to open man up, to set free the imagination? The others - priest, teacher, saint, statesman, warrior - hold us to the path of history. They keep us chained to the rock, that the vultures may eat out our hearts. It is the artist who has the courage to go against the crowd; he is the unrecognized "hero of our time" - and of all time.”
― Henry Miller

“I've always considered writing the most hateful kind of work. I suspect it's a bit like fucking - which is fun only for amateurs. Old whores don't do much giggling.”-- Hunter S. Thompson

“They say a person has so unique a set of meanings we ought to be incapable of understanding each other, yet we speak and teach as if by magic.”― E.J. Koh, The Magical Language of Others

"The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense."---Tom Clancy

“A doctor, lawyer, accountant, dentist, or pharmacist will go through years of training and then do the same thing over and over again in slightly different variations. Much of the training is to socialize us into people who can sit still for long periods and behave and operate consistently and reliably....Basically, we are being trained and prepped to become more like machines. But we'll never be as good as the real thing.”― Andrew Yang

"Thinking is trying to think the unthinkable: thinking the thinkable is not worth the effort."--Helene Cixous

"We’re all weird. Everyone’s pretending. No one knows what they’re doing. Do whatever you want. Have you tried that yet?? It’s fucking amazing. And don’t worry, it all works out in the end because nothing works out in the end. And everything’s finally all for nothing. What a relief. You don’t have to do any of this shit. No one truly has their shit together. And if it looks like they do, it’s only for a short while. There are no answers. There is no map. We are made of weather."---Darby Hudson