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“How I adored to draw as a child, a teen; all my life before I began to try and shape a career out of it.”

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“The director of the Road Safety Authority comes on the radio to tell me that today is the day of the year upon which more people die in car accidents than on any other, as though if he tells me this I might postpone the car accident I had scheduled; I might remember not to be so common, so vulgar, as to die today.”

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“Now I wonder if each artwork is in fact utterly inaccessible to everybody but the person to whom it is secretly addressed?”

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“At first I wonder if they are brothers; now I remember to wonder if they are robbers or rapists or murderers who've hired suits and photocopied leaflets in a cunning ploy to insinuate themselves into the quiet bungalows of defenceless strangers on hills in middles-of-nowhere, and I realise it would be very stupid to invite them in so they can see for themselves there's no garda here.”

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“I open my eyes to find the morning adjourned.”

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“I think: by the time I'm old, nobody will be able to die any more.”

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“After college, I started working in the gallery and found myself surrounded by a whole new set of people who had not yet grown accustomed to my antisocial tendencies, who had not yet learned to expect me to say no, and stopped asking. I was invited to go drinking and dancing again, and so, I tried.”

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“And out the bus window, here is my dead world come true, my whole dead world in motion.”

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“You can't dance to paintings. This is something Ben said, during one of our White Cube conversations, back when I was still wrong about him. He said it even though, at the time, he was desperately trying to be a painter. He said it because it was true and not because it was something either of us wanted to hear.”

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“There is no such thing as “too late” when you still have breath, voice, or courage. Time isn’t what saves the world. People are.”

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“I remember the book I was reading. Hour of the Star by Clarice Lispector. I remember because there were so many things in Hour of the Star with which I found kinship that I'd brought along a stub of pencil in case I urgently needed to underline.”

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