Justin Lancy

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A curious animal.

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Michael Dean • Michael Dean | Substack

and when nobody wakes you up in the morning, and when nobody waits for you at night, and when you can do whatever you want. what do you call it, freedom or loneliness? - charles bukowski

E. L. Doctorow once said that "writing a novel is like driving a car at night. You can see only as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way."

Anne Lamott • Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life

hope, as Chesterton said, is the power of being cheerful in circumstances that we know to be desperate.

Anne Lamott • Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life

As Molly Ivins put it, freedom fighters don’t always win, but they are always right.

Anne Lamott • Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life

Goethe said, “We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.”

Austin Kleon • Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative (Austin Kleon)

To be alive, it seemed to me, as I stood there in all kinds of sorrow, was to be both original and reflection, and to be dead was to be split off, to be reflection alone.

Teju Cole • Open City

but if you’re too loyal to your own suffering, you forget that others suffer, too.