Sue Zhao, Dialogues on Love // At Breakfast, Laurits Andersen Ring // Ada Limón, ‘Before’ from Bright Dead Things // Andrés Lozano, Day Job 1 // via @shhhitsfine
“We read books to find out who we are. What other people, real or imaginary, do and think and feel… is an essential guide to our understanding of what we ourselves are and may become.”
“But in the end, stories are about one person saying to another: This is the way it feels to me. Can you understand what I’m saying? Does it feel this way to you?”
— Kazuo Ishiguro, in his Nobel prize (2017) acceptance speech. (via halcynth)
“It’s so hard to be sincere without sounding pretentious… I mean, what are you supposed to do if you really happen to feel like you’ve swallowed the universe? Not say so?”