December 2011
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This, above everything else, is the most important thing I was told all year:
The world has no intention of making room for you. I don’t care if you write. The most active thing in the world is to ask questions. Ask your mom, your dogs, and your breakfast questions. I want you to work like fuck and exist for a reason. The moment the world stops surprising you, you have failed. The world hasn’t...
If you think you might come to California, I...
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“When, suddenly, instead of the world revolving around a person, a person becomes...”
– “I, Afterlife: Essay in Mourning Time,” Kristin Prevallet
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“What matters is that you do good work. What matters is that you produce things...”
– Dave Eggers
“Class rules on public discussion:
Anybody gets to ask any question about any...”
– From David Foster Wallace’s English 102-Literary Analysis: Prose Fiction syllabus