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...life's big. If you can't fix it, give it a spin.
Mark Z. Danielewski
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Mark Z. Danielewski
Age: 58
Born: 1966
Born: March 5
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I do not know anything about Art with a capital A. What I do know about is my art. Because it concerns me. I do not speak for others. So I do not speak for things which profess to speak for others. My art, however, speaks for me. It lights my way.
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So often I wonder whether it is my right to capitalize, as I feel, so often, on the grief of others. But then I justify, in my own particular thoughts, by feeling that I can contribute a little to the understanding of what others are going through then there is reason for doing it.
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And where there is no Echo there is no description of space or love. There is only silence.
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Youth always tries to fill the void, an old man learns to live with it.
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My interest is in how meaning is communicated via language, and I believe the shape, positioning, even the color of the language has an effect on meaning.
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I think that's what finally stopped me. I slid right to the edge. My legs were hanging over. And I could feel it too. I don't know how. There was no wind, no sound, no change of temperature. There was just this terrible emptiness reaching up for me.
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You got a death wish, Truant?' Which was the thing that scared me. 'Cause maybe I did.
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Come morning I found the day as I have found every other day--without relief or explanation.
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Here then at long last is my darkness. No cry of light, no glimmer, not even the faintest shard of hope to break free across the hold.
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Here then - the after math of meaning. A liftime finished between the space of two frames.
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Maturity, one discovers, has everything to do with the acceptance of ‘not knowing.
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