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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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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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Knowledge is hot water on wool. It shrinks time and space.
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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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...life's big. If you can't fix it, give it a spin.
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No one ever really gets used to nightmares.
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One forgets that one is one. I must try to remember this.
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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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Come morning I found the day as I have found every other day--without relief or explanation.
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I will walk heavy, and I will walk strange.
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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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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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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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Through all the windows I only see infinity.
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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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Everyone loves the Dream but I kill 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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House of Leaves is certainly about the unsettling nature of fear - and it was my aim to address that - but its also about recovering from fear.
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