“Doing nothing involves breaking sacred rules of middle-class white America: something guaranteed to wake up my dragons of anxiety, even though I am hardly a poster child for the Protestant work ethic. I resisted the urge to get a job selling bagels just to prove I existed.”
“Because story is real. When I write, when I act, when I sing in the car, when I am brave or stubborn enough to keep at it until I have been as specific and honest as I can be in the creation — when I get the story right — it fires all those fabulous mirror neurons, and those moments of story are just as real to my brain as if I were actually doing them”
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“[H]ow do you easily spot what’s missing from your collection of thoughts? In other words, how can you usefully use all these wonderful online tools to avoid thinking kitsch thoughts or blandly repeating yourself?”
“For me, that’s what creativity is - playing with found objects, reconstructing things that already exist, transforming ideas or stories I already know. It’s not about the colonisation of new territory, it’s about exploring inwards, examining your existing presumptions, squinting at the archive of experience from new angles, and hoping for some sort of revelation.”
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“You know how it is when a friend gets consumed by these unanswerable questions? They may flip out, or become paralyzed by the unrelenting weight. Now image a whole world waylaid by these Dickian obsessions. An entire species afflicted with an identity crises.”
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“We have, or used to have, the right to speak freely, to move freely, to be in general treated equally under the law, to dissent without fear. We’ve given up a lot of that to our leaders’ need to win.And for what? Does this feel like winning to you?”
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“Once you realise the power of this incredible tool, the camera, you realise you have the facility to do great good or to do great evil. In other words, to be human.”
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