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"Don’t get discouraged because there’s a lot of mechanical work to writing. … I rewrote the first part of A Farewell to Arms at least fifty times. … The first draft of anything is shit. When you first start to write you get all the kick and the reader gets none, but after you learn to work it’s your object to convey everything to the reader so that he remembers it not as a story he has read but something that has happened to himself. That’s the true test of writing."
— Ernest Hemingway
"Up in your arms
Too late to beg you or cancel it
Though I know it must be the killing time
Unwillingly mine
Fate
Up against your will
Through the thick and thin
He will wait until
You give yourself to him
In starlit nights I saw you
So cruelly you kissed me
Your lips a magic world
Your sky all hung with jewels
The killing moon
Will come too soon
Fate
Up against your will
Through the thick and thin
He will wait until
You give yourself to him"
Too late to beg you or cancel it
Though I know it must be the killing time
Unwillingly mine
Fate
Up against your will
Through the thick and thin
He will wait until
You give yourself to him
In starlit nights I saw you
So cruelly you kissed me
Your lips a magic world
Your sky all hung with jewels
The killing moon
Will come too soon
Fate
Up against your will
Through the thick and thin
He will wait until
You give yourself to him"
— The Killing Moon - Echo and the Bunnymen
"I believe in the power of the imagination to remake the world,
to release the truth within us,
to hold back the night,
to transcend death,
to charm motorways,
to ingratiate ourselves with birds,
to enlist the confidences of madmen."
to release the truth within us,
to hold back the night,
to transcend death,
to charm motorways,
to ingratiate ourselves with birds,
to enlist the confidences of madmen."
— J.G. Ballard
"You have wakened not out of sleep,
but into a prior dream,
and that dream lies within another,
and so on, to infinity,
which is the number of grains of sand.
The path that you are to take is endless,
and you will die before you have truly awakened."
but into a prior dream,
and that dream lies within another,
and so on, to infinity,
which is the number of grains of sand.
The path that you are to take is endless,
and you will die before you have truly awakened."
— Jorge Luis Borges
"Man is an artifact designed for space travel.
He is not designed to remain in his present biologic state
any more than a tadpole is designed to remain a tadpole."
He is not designed to remain in his present biologic state
any more than a tadpole is designed to remain a tadpole."
— William S. Burroughs
