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To know that one does not write for the other, to know that these things I am going to write will never cause me to be loved by the one I love (the other), to know that writing compensates for nothing, sublimates nothing, that it is precisely there where you are not—this is the beginning of writing.
Roland Barthes, A Lover’s Discourse
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For me, the word writing is the exact opposite of the word waiting. Instead of waiting, there is writing. Well, I’m probably wrong — it’s possible that writing is another form of waiting, of delaying things. I’d like to think otherwise. … The truth is, reading is always more important than writing.
Roberto Bolaño, from a 2002 interview in BOMB, trans. Margaret Carson
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To write is to make oneself the echo of what cannot cease speaking—and since it cannot, in order to become its echo I have, in a way, to silence it. I bring to this incessant speech the decisiveness, the authority of my own silence.
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A book is a small cog in a much more complex, external machinery. Writing is a flow among others; it enjoys no special privilege and enters into relationships of current and countercurrent, of back-wash with other flows - the flows of shit, sperm, speech, action, eroticism, money, politics, etc. Like Bloom, writing on the sand with one hand and masturbating with the other - two flows in what relationship?
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Each night about this time he puts on sadness like a garment and goes on writing.
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In class, one day, she was bitten by a mosquito and became unruly. Her teacher made her stay after school.
From the series Re-Visions by Marcia Resnick, 1976-1977
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Marcel Marïen - untitled ( l’eveil ) ,1950s
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René Magritte, Le Portrait de Paul Éluard, 1936
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Censor the body and you censor breath and speech at the same time. Write yourself. Your body must be heard.
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