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I disappoint myself, trying to write every day but failing. Can i commit to writing every week, every month? Probably not. But I do *know* that I’ll write something every year for the rest of my life, that I *have* written something every year since I learned how to write, and in that way I can find pride and stamina in my writing life.

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“Creators really need to make peace with their self-interest, even with their narcissism, because that’s part of the deal,” she explains. “You’re sitting there, you’re making stuff, you’re alone with yourself. There’s so much self-involvement. Make peace with it so you won’t be confused or abuse it. I want my artists to be self-interested because then I get more information. Like, keep it coming, you know?”

https://www.sleek-mag.com/article/this-infinity-mirror-of-free-expression-gabi-abrao-on-ambient-love-and-the-metaphysics-of-social-media/

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“I don’t think there’s any escape from illusions. But I think just knowing that they’re there can be nice. It takes the pressure off.” In a world of illusions, we can abandon our gestures towards perfection – all those painful and fated efforts to accurately convey ourselves to the world. We can stop taking our performances so seriously and understand them as universal. “Everyone always hates on creators or influencers or actors or, you know, people who put themselves out there,” she says. “And I’m like, ‘No, we’re all performing.’ Those people just happen to be comfortable doing it out in the open. But it’s everyone – we all perform. That’s how we survive. And I think it’s great. It’s a great time.”

https://www.sleek-mag.com/article/this-infinity-mirror-of-free-expression-gabi-abrao-on-ambient-love-and-the-metaphysics-of-social-media/

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“Any artist or musician or anyone that I end up getting attached to, it’s because I feel like they give me permission for something.”

https://www.sleek-mag.com/article/this-infinity-mirror-of-free-expression-gabi-abrao-on-ambient-love-and-the-metaphysics-of-social-media/

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Somehow you can tell that everything she writes, everything she posts, is all done for herself, for her own amusement, first and foremost.

https://www.sleek-mag.com/article/this-infinity-mirror-of-free-expression-gabi-abrao-on-ambient-love-and-the-metaphysics-of-social-media/

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… and yet i feel peripheral.

- wheareabouts, Jhumpa Lahiri, pg 9

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“I'm entering a very new and genuine chapter, curious about itself, so appealing and personal that I can't paint it or write it.”

- Clarice Lispector, Agua Viva, pg 7

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“And when the day reaches its end I hear the crickets and become entirely replete and unintelligible. Then I live the blue daybreak that comes with its bulge full of little birds- I wonder if I'm giving you an idea of what a person goes through in life? And every thing that occurs to me I note to pin it down.”

- Clarice Lispector, Agua Viva, pg 12

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back in February, I called S, who says New York doesn’t talk to her the way San Francisco used to. I feel that way about California, too. I wonder how it is that a place can unlock something so different for everyone who touches it. She wondered if it was because of the people she knew in San Francisco, or whether it was something inherent in the place itself which spoke to her. When I walk down my parents’ street under skies so clear my thoughts feel unbounded I think it must be something in this particular place that makes me feel so attached to it.

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to write a story with the same sense of distortion present in Fallen Angels’ camerawork

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favorite are.na channels <3

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gardens as offerings to the soil, as well