Hesitancy is the surest destroyer of talent. One cannot be timorous and reticent, one must be original and loud. New metaphors, new rhythms, new expressions of emotion can only spring from unhindered gall. Nothing should interfere with that intuition--not the fear of appearing stupid, nor of offending somebody, nor jeopardizing publication, nor being trivial. The intuition must be as unhindered as a karate chop.
Stephen DobynsTags: poetry
One writes a poem when one is so taken up by an emotional concept that one is unable to remain silent.
Stephen DobynsTags: poetry
It's peculiar to eat naked, but not crazy. What's crazy is to shoot yourself. You've got to get these things in perspective.
Stephen DobynsIsn't that why you want to shoot yourself? To make a protest against change?
Stephen DobynsIt was not that she felt any allegiance to the truth. God knows she had cheated on too many men for the truth to be more than a stumbling block. But sometimes falsehood took more strength than she could summon up.
Stephen DobynsThe obsession was gone. We liked each other, even loved each other. And our sex was still good, but the hunger was gone. Either it just wore out or we wore each other out. A passion like that pushes everything else out of its path. You can't be married and have jobs and children and work and write and have something like an emotional bubonic plague.
Stephen DobynsMost women are more into real estate than sex. They want to own you.
Stephen DobynsIt was as if pain were a room he had entered and the door had been locked behind him.
Stephen DobynsTags: pain
If it weren't for the Chicagos and Detroits and Toledos, the terrible things would spread out across the whole country and make trouble for everybody else. Such places were collectors of badness in the way hospitals were collectors of the sick and damaged.
Stephen DobynsThese people you used to see every day, friends or acquaintances, after a while they become as distant as any stranger, people you suddenly recall late at night--you remember something they said or something silly that someone once did. For a few moments they completely occupy your mind; then you forget them again.
Stephen DobynsTags: friends
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