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I think that people in the phase between being someone's kid and being someone's parent have always been uniquely narcissistic, but that social media and Twitter and LiveJournal make it really easy to navel-gaze in a way that you've never been able to before. Lena Dunham

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Today's quote from Quentin Tarantino discussing his new film Django Unchained. One of the things that's interesting about Westerns in particular is [that] there's no other genre that reflects the decade that they were made or the morals and the feelings of Americans during that decade [more] than Westerns. Westerns are always a magnifying glass … Continue reading QOTD

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Youth is when you're allowed to stay up late on New Year's Eve. Middle age is when you're forced to. Bill Vaughan

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I like the dark part of the night, after midnight and before four-thirty, when it's hollow, when ceilings are harder and farther away. Then I can breathe, and can think while others are sleeping, in a way can stop time, can have it so – this has always been my dream – so that while … Continue reading QOTD

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I began to write, and the past lost some of it's power - I wrote it out of me. Graham Greene, A Sort of Life

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We are our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from ourselves. -- Tom Robbins, Still Life with Woodpecker

Be you

This wasn't the person he'd thought he was, or would have chosen to be if he'd been free to choose, but there was something comforting and liberating about being an actual definite someone, rather than a collection of contradictory potential someones. ― Jonathan Franzen, Freedom

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A writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people Thomas Mann