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Through all the windows I only see infinity.

Mark Z. Danielewski

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Mark Z. Danielewski
Age: 58
Born: 1966
Born: March 5
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New York City
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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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And where there is no Echo there is no description of space or love. There is only silence.
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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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Not all complex problems have easy solutions so says science (so warns science.)
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Maturity, one discovers, has everything to do with the acceptance of ‘not knowing.
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Here then - the after math of meaning. A liftime finished between the space of two frames.
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Youth always tries to fill the void, an old man learns to live with it.
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Physics depends on a universe infinitely centred on an equals sign.
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Knowledge is hot water on wool. It shrinks time and space.
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Tom gets by, Navidson succeeds. Tom just wants to be, Navidson must become. And yet despite such obvious differences, anyone who looks past Tom's wide grin and considers his eyes will find surprisingly deep pools of sorrow. Which is how we know they are brothers, because like Tom, Navidson's eyes share the same water.
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Some people reflect light, some deflect it, you by some miracle, seem to collect it.
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At the breakfast table we are footnoting everything that we read. We don't recognise it as such but we encounter an article in the newspaper and then suddenly we recall that a friend had a certain comment on that particular story, a certain bit of news that we saw on the television applies to that and we immediately assemble an idea of a story.
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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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You got a death wish, Truant?' Which was the thing that scared me. 'Cause maybe I did.
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...life's big. If you can't fix it, give it a spin.
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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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Everyone loves the Dream but I kill it.
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I will walk heavy, and I will walk strange.
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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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Who has never killed an hour?
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