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“Creativity is the opposite of TV”

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Jerry Stahl is an American novelist known for his dark humor and profound psychological descriptions. His works often explore the moral dilemmas of modern society and the psychological struggles of individuals. more

“Jake La Botz is a creator of dark poetry and haunting song, the kind of music that gets in your bones and rides you for days, a sound and vision only those who've been to the bottom and clawed their way back up can generate. His midnight gifts evoke Hank Williams and Skip James as much as Tom Waits and Dylan. Not everybody will get this music - because not everybody is ready for the truth.”

Way Kind Song Waiting Sound Dark Vision Ready Bottom Creator Bones Toms Midnight Dylan Haunting Evoke Skip Jake Hank Williams

Author:Jerry Stahl

“The Adderall Diaries is phenomenal. With jittery finesse and a reformed tweaker's eye for detail, Stephen Elliott captures the terrifying, hilarious, heart-strangling reality of a life whose scorched-earth physical and psycho-emotional dimensions no one could have invented - they absolutely had to be lived. By all rights, the author should either be dead or chewing his fingers in a bus station. Instead, he may well have written the memoir of an entire generation.”

“All wealth is relative; and so is its absence.”

Wealth Absence Relative

Book:A Visit to Don Otavio: A Mexican Journey

Source: A Visit to Don Otavio: A Mexican Journey

“One does odd things. You see, when one's young one doesn't feel part of it yet, the human condition; one does things because they are not “for good”; one thinks everything is a rehearsal - to be repeated ad lib, to be put right when the curtain goes up in earnest. One day you know that the curtain was up all the time. That was the performance.”

Thinking Knows Feels Humans Doe Young Conditions One Day Performances Odd Ads Human Condition Curtains Earnest Rehearsal Odd Things Young Ones

Author:Sybille Bedford

“A part, a large part, of traveling is an engagement of the ego v. the world. The world is hydra headed, as old as the rocks and as changing as the sea, enmeshed inextricably in its ways. The ego wants to arrive at places safely and on time.”

World Way Want Sea Rocks Ego Engagement Hydra

Book:As it was: pleasures, landscapes and justice

Source: As it was: pleasures, landscapes and justice

“You don't need to like reality, only be strong enough to face it”

Needs Enough Reality Faces Strong Strong Enough

Author:Brent Weeks

“It was no true prayer to beg forgiveness while choosing to sin.”

Prayer Sin

Author:Brent Weeks

“If you worry about what everyone is trying to do, you become a spectator and not a player.”

Ifs Trying Worry Player Spectators

Book:The Way Of Shadows: Book 1 of the Night Angel

Source: The Way Of Shadows: Book 1 of the Night Angel

“Misery's fine - as long as you know you can get out of it when you want to.”

Knows Want Long Fine Misery

Book:Two Plays: Professor Taranne, Translated by Peter Meyer, and Ping Pong, Translated by Derek Prouse

Source: Two Plays: Professor Taranne, Translated by Peter Meyer, and Ping Pong, Translated by Derek Prouse

“Passive pleasure is no pleasure at all.”

Pleasure Passive

Book:Two Plays: Professor Taranne, Translated by Peter Meyer, and Ping Pong, Translated by Derek Prouse

Source: Two Plays: Professor Taranne, Translated by Peter Meyer, and Ping Pong, Translated by Derek Prouse

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