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Opening
by Tess Gallagher
I entered this world not wanting to come. I'll leave it not wanting to go. All this while, when it seemed there were two doors, there was only one -- this passing through.
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Jeanette Winterson, from "Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal," publ. in 2011
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“There’s a legend about a Chinese painter who was asked by the emperor to paint a landscape so pristine that the emperor can enter it. He didn’t do a good job, so the emperor was preparing to assassinate him. But because it was his painting, legend goes, he stepped inside and vanished, saving himself. I always loved that little allegory as an artist. Even when it is not enough for others, if it is enough for you, you can live inside it.”
— Ocean Vuong, from an interview with Zoë Hitzig in Prac Crit
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