My dad raised me to believe we are what we accomplish, that what matters isn’t who we are, but what we do. He said we’re all paper cups, disposable and replaceable, that the work we contribute to the world is what we hold in our cups, that the work we do is what we’re worth. – Michelle Dowd
Poets extrapolate. – James Tiptree, Jr. (Alice Sheldon)
Most
all my favorite
artists
kill themselves
one way
or another.
Lesson here.
You can
create
your own
final masterpiece,
blow yourself
up to hell
but
do the work
first.
Ernest Hemingway, Lenny Bruce, Hunter S. Thompson,
David Foster Wallace, Jack Kerouac, Sylvia Plath, Robin Williams.
Jack London, John Berryman, John Kennedy Toole, Richard Brautigan.
