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Chuck Palahniuk • Make Something Up
The Score Takes Care of Itself.
Scott Galloway • The Algebra of Wealth: A Simple Formula for Success
27 Reasons Real Writers Don't Write Listicles on Substack
Writing on Substack isn’t about clout. Unlike all of those other places we no longer hang out online, Substack authors (and artists)
don’t writefor likes, follows, fans, subscribers and sales. Like the Buddha taught us long ago, there is no ego in art, nor an I in team. (there is of course,
He was a wind chime in human form, dangling dorkily from the glorious tree of higher education.
Rufi Thorpe • Margo's Got Money Troubles: A Novel
To admire a misanthrope.
Eugene Thacker • Infinite Resignation
His misshapen body, that gray mop of abundant hair, the yellow nails of his pudgy fingers, the bags under his lusterless eyes, were only intelligible if regarded as the waste products eliminated from his intrinsic self by the same forces of perfection which purified and chiseled his verse. He was his own cancellation.
Vladimir Nabokov • Pale Fire (Vintage International)
That night we stayed with our old Dungeons & Dragons friend George Evans at his communal hippie house near Stanford. He was really going off the deep end those days and would later be found up in a tree, hair down to his shoulders, wild-eyed, on the Stanford campus, shouting at passersby about the imminent end of the world. The night we stayed
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