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“every mouth you’ve ever kissed
was just practice
all the bodies you’ve ever undressed
and ploughed in to
were preparing you for me.
i don’t mind tasting them in the
memory of your mouth
they were a long hall way
a door half open
a single suit case still on the conveyor belt
was it a long journey?
did it take you long to find me?
you’re here now,
welcome home.”
―
was just practice
all the bodies you’ve ever undressed
and ploughed in to
were preparing you for me.
i don’t mind tasting them in the
memory of your mouth
they were a long hall way
a door half open
a single suit case still on the conveyor belt
was it a long journey?
did it take you long to find me?
you’re here now,
welcome home.”
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“Sometimes you have to go on when you don't feel like it, and sometimes you're doing good work when it feels like all you're managing is to shovel shit from a sitting position.”
― On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
― On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
“I would hurl words into the darkness and wait for an echo, and if the echo sounded, no matter how faintly, I would send other words to tell, to march, to fight, to create a sense of hunger for life that gnaws at us all.”
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“I'd rather chase the sun than wait for it.”
― I Am the Messenger
― I Am the Messenger
“Never fall in love with an idea. They're whores: if the one you're with isn't doing the job, there's always, always, always another.”
― The Cheese Monkeys
― The Cheese Monkeys
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