Oddbean new post about login | logout βThere are so many temptations for American writers to become part of the system and part of the structure that now, more than ever, we have to resist. American writers ought to stand and live in the margins, and be more dangerous.β~ Don DeLillo π£ππβοΈπ¬οΈπΉπβ¨ππ¦π«β€οΈβπ₯
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βοΈπΊπΈ{America: The Tinderbox}π₯π³οΈ
βNarrative that is exciting and still is literature is *very rare*. You have to make the country not describe it. It is as hard to do as paint a CΓ©zanne. And Iβm the only bastard right now who can do it.β ~ Ernest Hemingway πΌοΈπ¨ποΈπΊοΈπ§π§³β€οΈ
π»π§¨π₯π Futurist. World Builder. I create magnificent, extraordinary world(s).πππβοΈπ¬οΈπΉπβ¨ππ¦π«β€οΈβπ₯
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βWriters must oppose systems. Itβs important to write against power, corporations, the state, and the whole system of consumption and *especially* of *DEBILITATING ENTERTAINMENT*[β¦] I think writers, by nature, must oppose things, oppose whatever power tries to impose on us.β ~ Don DeDillo ππβοΈπ¬οΈπΉπβ¨ππ¦π«β€οΈβπ₯
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"It is amazing what one ray of sunshine can do for a man!" ~ Fyodor Dostoevsky
You canβt argue with this. Hold on to it as long as you possibly can. Cherish and guard and protect your one & only source of sunshine, darling.βοΈπ¬οΈπΉπβ¨ππ¦π«β€οΈβπ₯
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I will see you soon in December, itβs only a few months away. So, in the meantime - just live & love. Live your beautiful life to the fullest. You deserve nothing but happiness and freedom and safety.βοΈπ¬οΈπΉπβ¨ππ¦π«β€οΈβπ₯
"I can see the sun, but even if I cannot see the sun, I know that it exists. And to know that the sun is there - that is living.β ~ Fyodor Dostoevsky
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βI think Iβm a mixture of simplicity & complexes, but Iβm beginning to understand myself now.β ~ Marilyn MonroeβοΈπ¬οΈπΉπβ¨ππ¦π«β€οΈβπ₯
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I think there's two things in human beings... that they want to be alone, but they also want to be together. ~ Marilyn MonroeβοΈπ¬οΈπΉπβ¨ππ¦π«β€οΈβπ₯
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Simplicity is the keynote of all true elegance. ~ Coco Chanel βοΈπ¬οΈπΉπβ¨ππ¦π«β€οΈβπ₯
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We reject: kings, presidents, and voting.
We believe in: rough consensus and running code. ~ David Clark, 1992 βοΈπ¬οΈπΉπβ¨ππ¦π«β€οΈβπ₯
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