Deena Metzger - Writing for your life (1992)

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Beauty appears when something is completely and absolutely and openly itself.

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To be willing to live within the imagination is to commit oneself to the gathering together of the pieces that might begin to form a self. To avoid this territory is to avoid the encounters that might validate, inform, or enhance one's experience.

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Creating art and creating ourselves are the same act; art, world, ourselves — these are continuous with one another.

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The world of public discourse - political, social, diplomatic, commercial - has so corrupted language that we are rightly more suspicious of the meaning of words than we are convinced of their veracity. Language has been turned on its head.

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For those who are intrigued by the multiplicity of reality and the unique possibilities of their own vision, the creative is the path they must pursue.

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For those who do not wish to step away from consensus, the creative is useless at best; at worst, it is dangerous.

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Some people fear seeing or feeling anything about which there is no general agreement. For others, it is thrilling to be aware of innuendo, shading, complexity.

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