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"I had woken up destroyed and feeling the sunlight. It was brutal, like nature was reminding me that I was a bad person. Truth told I wasn’t a bad person – I was just hungover. These feelings come up sometimes." – Brontez Purnell, 100 Boyfriends

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“I don’t like ferocious irony but rather the kind that vacillates between disappointment and hope. Okay?” – Enrique Vila-Matas, Never Any End to Paris

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Artists should have honest discussions about ambition.

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“poetry / isn’t revolution but a way of knowing / why it must come” – Adrienne Rich, Dreamwood

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“As almost always when I’m beginning, I promise myself an optimistic novel. I know what I mean. Not conventional optimism. A novel tasting of life. Then, when it is finished…” – Georges Simenon, When I Was Old

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In the right context, singing and dancing can really be some of the most beautiful expressions of resistance.

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“It won’t sell” is the censorship of capitalism.

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“No matter how cynical you become, it’s never enough to keep up.” – Lily Tomlin

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Your semi-regular reminder that I have a new book out. The title is Dry Your Tears to Perfect Your Aim: bookhugpress.ca/shop/author/...

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"I don’t know about you, but I only have one life, and I don’t want to spend it in a sewer of injustice." – Wallace Shawn

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“You say you’re not going to make the same mistakes your parents made. But I didn’t realize how many other mistakes were available.” – Sharon Olds

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“There will always be enemies. Time to stop being your own.” – Larry Kramer

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Thinking as the opposite of knowing.

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“Hope has nothing to do with optimism…. It is in Hell where solidarity is important, not in Heaven.” – John Berger, in The Seasons in Quincy

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I continue to do this Patreon, where you can read excepts from Amateur Kittens Dreaming Solar Energy like this one: www.patreon.com/posts/excerp...

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“If we write about what we care about, we risk irrelevance. It’s worth the risk. it's the only risk.” – Lynne Tillman

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"What is it to reside without settling? Is that is or is that ain’t like being stuck in sweetness, held in life?" - Fred Moten, Sun and Shade

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"Reality is not simply there, it does not simply exist: it must be sought out and won." - Paul Celan

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Eleven cultural organizations in Montreal have officially endorsed the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI), highlighting their commitment to the global Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement: www.instagram.com/p/DGOcV-Uvbb...

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I want success but I love failure.

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Chasing success makes for bad art.

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On the other hand, my book got some really nice reviews: radicalcut.blogspot.com/2024/11/some...

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I had some success as a writer, but I think I managed to write my way out of it.

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"I’m not the type to demand affirmation or to worry that I’ll be forgotten. I’m more the type to dare the world to forget me." – David Berman

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"There is no better place for hiding a secret than an unfinished novel." - Italo Calvino

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“No, I didn’t murder my brother. Very sadly, my brother killed himself. He wasn’t well. My parents know this but pretend they don’t. I suppose they think there’s something shameful about suicide... So they pretend something happened that didn’t.” radicalcut.blogspot.com/2025/02/exce...

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The more you know how things work behind the scenes in any art form, the more difficult it is to take a given works stated intentions at face value.

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I like art that's really angry and yet I'm no longer making art that's really angry.

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"I am the judge sitting in every computer shouting FREEDOM IS FOR WHEN?" —Etel Adnan, The Arab Apocalypse

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"Thinking about all the ways art (in every discipline) is and isn't a star system, how at a certain point in some artists careers opportunities apparently continue to accrue because of their name and almost in spite of the work..." radicalcut.blogspot.com/2020/02/star...

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"Where “beauty is freedom” and “freedom” is the prize / Oh they wouldn’t know freedom / if you salted it and rubbed it in their eyes…" - The Jazz Butcher, Last Of The Gentleman Adventurers

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“I am in a state of constant discomfort and I like this state so much I would like to share it.” – Jamaica Kincaid, My Garden (Book)

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For years I couldn’t stop writing about the oncoming fascism and then the fascism was here and I couldn’t seem to write about it anymore.

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I used to think my problem was that I too frequently self-sabotage but now I think that my problem is actually that I too desperately want success.

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“I think that in literature, deep down, realism can’t do without fantasy, somehow it needs it.” - Julio Cortazar

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"That you can't fight City Hall, is a rumor being spread by City Hall." - Audre Lorde

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"Work your ass off to change the language & dont ever get famous." – Bernadette Mayer, Experiments radicalcut.blogspot.com/2025/02/five...

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“Are you going to be a coward?” Zül-Qarnain Nantambu asked himself before taking the field for Kendrick Lamar’s show. “Are you going to take a stand?”

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"Conversation is when you don’t know what the next thing the person you are with is going to say." – John Cage

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“A political art, let it be / tenderness,” - Amiri Baraka, Short Speech to My Friends

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“I went through a period once when I felt like I was dying. I wasn’t writing any poetry, and I felt that if I couldn’t write I would split. I was recording in my journal, but no poems came. I know now that this period was a transition in my life.” radicalcut.blogspot.com/2023/11/audr...

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"And we are plagued by dead language and dead stories that serve people whose aim is nothing short of a dead world." – Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Message

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Your semi-regular reminder that I have a new book out. The title is Dry Your Tears to Perfect Your Aim: bookhugpress.ca/shop/author/...

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"Narrative is never a straight line. When it is – it’s something else: manipulation, denial, cowardice or our being on automatic pilot." – Betsy Warland, Presence of Mind

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Sometimes I now think I’m just a social media addiction masquerading as a person.

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Painting by Peter Uka 'Quiet Listening' 2020. Oil on canvas. Size 170 × 170 cm.

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"I assumed that everything would lead to complete failure, but I decided that didn't matter – that would be my life." - Jasper Johns

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