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I'm not independently wealthy.
Mark Z. Danielewski
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Mark Z. Danielewski
Age: 58
Born: 1966
Born: March 5
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Through all the windows I only see infinity.
Mark Z. Danielewski
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.
Mark Z. Danielewski
Back on shore everyone was pretty messed up, but the owner/captain was by far the worst off. He ended up drunk for a week, though the only thing he ever said was So? The boat's gone. So? Your mate's dead. So? Hey at least you're alive. So? An awful word but it does harden you. It hardened me.
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Who has never killed an hour?
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Physics depends on a universe infinitely centred on an equals sign.
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Here then - the after math of meaning. A liftime finished between the space of two frames.
Mark Z. Danielewski
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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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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One forgets that one is one. I must try to remember this.
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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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Maturity, one discovers, has everything to do with the acceptance of ‘not knowing.
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Some people reflect light, some deflect it, you by some miracle, seem to collect it.
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Youth always tries to fill the void, an old man learns to live with it.
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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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Everyone loves the Dream but I kill it.
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Knowledge is hot water on wool. It shrinks time and space.
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I will walk heavy, and I will walk strange.
Mark Z. Danielewski
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.
Mark Z. Danielewski
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
Mark Z. Danielewski
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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