“There's a table with some catalogues and a guest book in the corner; there are artworks. Today, I need so badly to be inspired by them, even though I hate that word: inspiration. It crops up in too many advertisements, politcians' speeches, Disney films, its meaning obliterated. I refuse to be 'inspired' in the same insipid way that ad executives and politicians and Hollywood producers suggest I should be. What I need from these works is to be reminded of why I used to care about art—so much that I'd try and make it for myself.”
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“How easy to be electrocuted. How fine the line between beauty and peril.”
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“It's too warm for red wine; now I mix gin and tonics instead. I find they make the ordinary sensation of living lighter, less ruffled.”
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“But now I remember: I am mentally ill. Properly, officially. And cannot be held responsible for my actions, my words.”
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“It makes me wonder if living under tragic circumstances inflects a person's sentences, irresistibly, with poetry.”
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“The worse things get, the more onerous they are to put right again. But this applies to every aspect of life.”
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“We rarely saw each other outside the walls of the gallery, but inside its glaring white spaces, to exorcise the tedium of the tasks we shared, Ben and I often ended up talking, and time and time again, he would say things that resonated so powerfully with my uneasiness about life, and back there and then, I believed it was an uneasiness unique to us, and that we were somehow bound by it.”
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“But I’m very glad to have been born, so I don’t know what to say about it all especially since my mom seems happy with her life, and I don’t know what else there is to want.”
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“But I know I will do neither; nothing. I have all the time in the world, and yet, I can't be bothered.”
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“In the days approaching Christmas, she always reminds me of the previous year: 'Jane crocheted you an entire poncho, and all you gave her was a bone-shaped beach stone.”
Source: A Line Made By Walking