“…You were free of everything except what was unquestionably locked within yourself.”— Franz Kafka
“Sometimes I write drunk and revise sober, and sometimes I write sober and revise drunk. But you have to have both elements in creation — the Apollonian and the Dionysian, or spontaneity and restraint, emotion and discipline.”—
Peter De Vries,
Reuben, Reuben (via coral)
(via blissfulover)
“Life is to be lived, not controlled; and humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain defeat.”— Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man (via coral)