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When I feel nothing for a person I get scared I'm losing my humanity and that turning cold means my heart's been botoxed.
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It is not easy to be honest because it is impossible to be complete.
Ariana Reines
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You have got to goad yourself toward a becoming that is in accordance with what you are innate. You have got to sometimes become the medicine you want to take.
Ariana Reines -
Can a book carry you into the world you have to pretend doesn't exist most of the time, can a book carry you back out into what first made you alive.
Ariana Reines -
It's dangerous to have feelings when you don't have any money.
Ariana Reines -
I have to get to the other side of the animal.
Ariana Reines -
Maybe what made me cry in class was how tired I was and how sad and hard it is, and how rare, to undertake an act that's truly free, and not just a response to a confused surge of drives and fears.
Ariana Reines -
Infinity has got to become mine so that I can know which way to turn, so that I can know in what direction something like morning is breaking.
Ariana Reines
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I want to say something about bad writing. I'm proud of my bad writing. Everyone is so intelligent lately, and stylish. Fucking great. I am proud of Philip Guston's bad painting, I am proud of Baudelaire's mamma's boy goo goo misery. Sometimes the lurid or shitty means having a heart, which's something you have to try to have. Excellence nowadays is too general and available to be worth prizing: I am interested in people who have to find strange and horrible ways to just get from point a to point b.
Ariana Reines -
Poetry’s not made of words.
Ariana Reines