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Being an artist doesn’t take much, just everything you got. which means, of course, that as the process is giving you life, it is also bringing you closer to death. but it’s no big deal. they are one in the same and cannot be avoided or denied. so when i totally embrace this process, this life/death, and abandon myself to it, i transcend all this meaningless gibberish and hang out with the gods. it seems to me that that is worth the price of admission.
-Hubert Selby, Jr.
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Being An Artist Doesn’t Take Much, Just

Hubert Selby, Jr.
Being an artist doesn’t take much, just everything you got. which means, of course, that as the process is giving you life, it is also bringing you closer to death. but it’s no big deal. they are one in the same and cannot be avoided or denied. so when i totally embrace this process, this life/death, and abandon myself to it, i transcend all this meaningless gibberish and hang out with the gods. it seems to me that that is worth the price of admission.
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