rob hardy

“The role of the artist is exactly the same as the role of the lover. If I love you, I have to make you conscious of the things you don’t see.”

—James Baldwin

I believe that our creativity grows like sidewalk weeds out of the cracks between our pathologies—not from the pathologies themselves. But so many people think it’s the other way around. For this reason, you will often meet artists who deliberately cling to their suffering, their addictions, their fears, their demons. They worry that if they ever

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“The only thing that one really knows about human nature is that it changes”

-Wilde

"There is a point beyond which we cannot return. That is the point that must be reached." —Franz Kafka

your heart knows when a story is True in some very deep way. there's some phenomena i call "slop sickness" where you get this horrible churning feeling in your stomach from reading a story that isn't resonant, when a company is stealing the soul of another. you can feel it

all things ceaselessly preach the dharma

i will destroy old patterns by falling in love with unfamiliarity

"The economy is just smart people paying beautiful people to promote stuff to insecure people." — @ShaanVP