#chatter

I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art. ↗

— Khalil Gibran

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#art #chattering #hands #i #ignorance

It's important, I think, for a writer of fiction to maintain an awareness of the pace and shape of the book as he's writing it. That is, he should be making an object, not chattering. ↗

— Thomas Perry

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#book #chattering #fiction #i #i think

Ours is essentially a tragic age, so we refuse to take it tragically. The cataclysm has happened, we are among the ruins, we start to build up new little habitats, to have new little hopes. It is rather hard work: there is now no smooth road into the future: but we go round, or scramble over the obstacles. We’ve got to live, no matter how many skies have fallen. ↗

— D.H. Lawrence

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#age