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Quote by Joey Comeau

“If we couldn't carry our dead inside us, we would be empty.”

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Joey Comeau is a Canadian writer born on September 26, 1980. Known for his humorous and self-deprecating style, he has written in various forms including novels, essays, and blogs. more

“We know the surrealist solution: concrete irrationality, objective risk. Poetry is the conquest, the only possible conquest, of the 'supreme position', 'a certain position of the mind from where life and death, the real and the imaginary, the past and the future... cease to be perceived in a contradictory sense.'”

Source: The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt

“Somewhere between the time you arrive and the time you go may lie a reason you were alive, but you'll never know.”

Knows May Reason Lying Alive Chaos

Author:Jackson Browne

“Things begin, things decay, and you've got to find a way to be okay.”

Way Okay Chaos Decay

Author:Jon Brion

“Look round and round upon this bare bleak plain, and see even here, upon a winter's day, how beautiful the shadows are! Alas! It is the nature of their kind to be so. The loveliest things in life... are but shadows; and they come and go, and change and fade away, as rapidly as these.”

Looks Kind Beautiful Nature Shadow Chaos Rounds Winter Fades Things In Life Alas Comes And Goes Bleak Fade Away

Book:The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit

Source: The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit

“Sometimes fear grips me that these fragile moments of life will fade away. It seems that I write against erasure.”

Writing Sometimes Moments Seems Fear Chaos Feminist Novelists Fragile Fades Fading Fade Away Moments Of Life Beautiful Moments Fading Away

Author:Assia Djebar

“What if man is not really a scoundrel, man in general, I mean, the whole race of mankind-then all the rest is prejudice, simply artificial terrors and there are no barriers and it's all as it should be.”

Ifs Men Should Mean Whole Race Mankind Prejudice Chaos Terror Punishment Barriers What If Artificial Scoundrels Crime And Punishment

Book:Crime and Punishment

Source: Crime and Punishment

“I write because it is while I'm writing that I feel most connected to why we're here. I write because silence is a heavy weight to carry. I write to remember. I write to heal. I write to let the air in. I write as a practice of listening.”

Feels Writing Remember Silence Practice Air Listening Weight Chaos Heavy Connected Heal Silence Is Heavy Weights

Author:Andrea Gibson

“Depression is like slashing at ghosts. Of course it's tempting to finally cut something real.”

Real Courses Cutting Chaos Ghost Tempting Something Real

Author:Joey Comeau

“Never mistake a clear view for a short distance.”

Views Mistake Clear Distance Chaos Daring Clear View

Author:Paul Saffo

“Creativity is the ability to identify self-imposed constraints, remove them, and explore the consequences of their removal.”

Self Ability Creativity Consequence Chaos Remove Constraints Removal

Book:Management in Small Doses

Source: Management in Small Doses

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