February 2012
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January 2012
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“Heart weeps.
Head tries to help heart.
Head tells heart how it is, again:
You...”
– Lydia Davis, Head, Heart, from Varieties of Disturbance.
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“I do what I think circumstances require of me – I attack, defend or go into the...”
– Magnus Carlsen
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“Confusing the desire to display affection with affection, we applaud the...”
– Ben Lerner, from Angle of Yaw.
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From an essay by John D’Agata, read by...
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“The not-knowing is crucial to art, is what permits art to be made. Without the...”
– Donald Barthelme
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“To write poetry, one must waste a good deal of time, one must simply “be,” one...”
– Mary Ruefle
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“The artist’s task is not to alter the world as the eye sees it into a...”
– James Agee
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“Writing is not about having something to say. It’s about an intense relationship...”
– Tom McCarthy
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“Wouldn’t it be fine if endings could be abolished in favor of translations to...”
– William T. Vollmann
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“I don’t know whether The Artist Formerly Known as Prince is Tourettic or...”
– Jonathan Lethem, from Motherless Brooklyn.
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“And all the spaces of our past moments of solitude, the spaces in which we have...”
– Gaston Bachelard, The Poetics of Space (via proustitute).
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“I paint from remembered landscapes that I carry with me — and remembered...”
– Joan Mitchell
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