Mark Z. Danielewski Zitate

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“Physics depends on a universe infinitely centred on an equals sign.”

“One forgets
that one is one.
I must try
to
remember this.”

“I do not know anything about Art with a capital A. What I do know about is my art. Because it concerns me. I do not speak for others. So I do not speak for things which profess to speak for others. My art, however, speaks for me. It lights my way.”

“… life's big. If you can't fix it, give it a spin.”

“Absolutely nothing visible to the eye provides a reason for or even evidence of those terrifying shifts which can in a matter of moments reconstitute a simple path into an extremely complicated one.”

“Beautiful women are always drawn to men they think will keep them beautiful.”

“Very
soon he
will vanish
completely in the wings
of his own
wordless
stanza.
[ ]

but
his
stanza
is not
completely
empty
[ * ]”

“Come morning I found the day as I have found every other day--without relief or explanation.”

“… the finest act of seeing is necessarily always the act of not seeing something else.”

“Here then - the after math of meaning. A liftime finished between the space of two frames.”

“Keep true to the rare music in your heart, to the marvelous and unique form that is and shall always be nothing else but you. Keep to that and you can do no wrong, which I realize is easier said than done.”

“Very
soon he
will vanish

completely in the wings

of his own
wordless
stanza”

“My dear girl, is it that you are so lonely that you had to create this?”

“Scientists estimate the universe unfolded from its state of infinite destiny* - a moment commonly referred to as "the big bang" - approximately 1.3-2 x 10^10 years ago.

*Typo: "destiny" should read "density.”

“I've come to believe errors, especially written errors, are often the only markers left by a solitary life: to sacrifice them is to lose the angles of personality, the riddle of a soul. In this case a very old soul. A very old riddle.”

“Maybe you saw her first? Caught a glimpse between the lines, between the letters, like a ghost in the mirror, a ghost in the wings?”