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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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New York City
New York
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Life

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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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I still get nightmares. In fact, I get them so often I should be used to them by now. I'm not. No one ever really gets used to nightmares.
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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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One forgets that one is one. I must try to remember this.
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Maturity, one discovers, has everything to do with the acceptance of ‘not knowing.
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Physics depends on a universe infinitely centred on an equals sign.
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I will walk heavy, and I will walk strange.
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No one ever really gets used to nightmares.
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Maybe you saw her first? Caught a glimpse between the lines, between the letters, like a ghost in the mirror, a ghost in the wings?
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I want something else. I'm not even sure what to call it anymore except I know it feels roomy and it's drenched in sunlight and it's weightless and I know it's not cheap. Probably not even real
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I'm not independently wealthy.
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My hands resemble some ancient tree: the roots that bind up the earth, the rock and the ceaselessly nibbling wordms.
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Literature is capable of being a subject that people want to catch up on or discuss, whether at a coffee shop or a watercooler. It can become an intrinsic part of their dialogue.
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Youth always tries to fill the void, an old man learns to live with it.
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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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Through all the windows I only see infinity.
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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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Even the closest relationships that I have I know could potentially fall away. That's not to speak pessimistically or negatively about those relationships. In a weird way, it's the opposite. I value them.
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Some people reflect light, some deflect it, you by some miracle, seem to collect it.
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Anger is one way to respond to fear. I say one way because responses are categorically multiple.
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