“I’m not interested in myself per se. I’m interested in myself as theme carrier, as host.”
― David Shields, Reality Hunger
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“I’m not interested in myself per se. I’m interested in myself as theme carrier, as host.” ― David Shields, Reality Hunger
All that we know is our own impression, and all that we are is an exterior impression, a melodrama in which we, the self-aware actors, are also our own spectators, our own gods by permission of some department or other at City Hall.
Fernando Pessoa • The Book of Disquiet (Penguin Modern Classics)
‘I am not sure that I exist, actually. I am all the writers that I have read, all the people that I have met, all the women that I have loved, all the cities I have visited.’
Elif Shafak • We Are What We Read
I think in hieroglyphs (mine). And in order to live I must constantly interpret myself