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Jacob Wren
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Jacob Wren @jacobwren.bsky.social · 1h
"There are not millions of deaths. It happens millions of times that someone dies."
- Etel Adnan, Sitt Marie Rose
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Jacob Wren @jacobwren.bsky.social · 5h
Four passages from Authenticity is a Feeling: radicalcut.blogspot.com/2021/10/four...
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Jacob Wren @jacobwren.bsky.social · 8h
"He told me about the traditional Iroquois way, how parents and all adults were expected to win the favour and respect of the children rather and asking the children to blindly obey them."
- Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, Outlaw Woman: A Memoir of the War Years 1960-1975
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Jacob Wren @jacobwren.bsky.social · 1d
"I’ve found, in my own writing, that a little hatred, keenly directed, is a useful thing."
– Alice Walker, In Search of Our Mothers’ Gardens
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Jacob Wren @jacobwren.bsky.social · 1d
“No matter how cynical you become, it’s never enough to keep up.”
– Lily Tomlin
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Jacob Wren @jacobwren.bsky.social · 1d
“If you do not answer the noise and urgency of your gifts, they will turn on you. Or drag you down with their immense sadness at being abandoned.”
– Joy Harjo, Crazy Brave
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Jacob Wren @jacobwren.bsky.social · 1d
“I read through everything I wrote and I feel very disappointed. But what can I do. I wrote it. It’s there.”
– Chantal Akerman
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Jacob Wren @jacobwren.bsky.social · 2d
"With me, irony is not a gesture of condescension but a form of struggle."
- Robert Musil
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Jacob Wren @jacobwren.bsky.social · 3d
“The night before she dreamed she had won the Nobel Prize for Despair.”
- Fanny Howe, The Deep North
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Jacob Wren @jacobwren.bsky.social · 3d
"Skepticism is the elegance of anxiety."
- E.M. Cioran
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Jacob Wren @jacobwren.bsky.social · 3d
It also got some really nice reviews: radicalcut.blogspot.com/2024/11/some...
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Jacob Wren @jacobwren.bsky.social · 3d
Your semi-regular reminder that I have a new book out. The title is Dry Your Tears to Perfect Your Aim: bookhugpress.ca/shop/author/...
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Jacob Wren @jacobwren.bsky.social · 3d
“If you remember better times / you know they were lies, because they led / to this”
- Alice Notley
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Jacob Wren @jacobwren.bsky.social · 3d
"I had two longings and one was fighting the other. I wanted to be loved and I wanted to be always alone."
– Jean Rhys
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Jacob Wren @jacobwren.bsky.social · 5d
"Inspiration presents itself to me in the form of anxiety."
– Susan Sontag, Reborn: Journals and Notebooks, 1947-1963
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Jacob Wren @jacobwren.bsky.social · 5d
"I've come to realize one thing, that stories are always bigger than we are, they happen to us and we are their protagonists without realizing it, but in the stories we live, we aren't the true protagonists, the true protagonist is the story itself."
- Antonio Tabucchi
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Jacob Wren @jacobwren.bsky.social · 6d
From my 2011 manifesto Manifesto for Confusion, Struggle and Conflicted Feelings: radicalcut.blogspot.com/2011/05/mani...
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Jacob Wren @jacobwren.bsky.social · 6d
"Where is the art that strikingly knows it’s own futility but stumbles forward compellingly, anyway, because as an artist you have no choice?"
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Jacob Wren @jacobwren.bsky.social · 6d
"It will be a slippery narrative composed in an unremitting continuous tense, devouring the present as it goes…"
– Annie Ernaux, The Years
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Jacob Wren @jacobwren.bsky.social · 8d
"And we are plagued by dead language and dead stories that serve people whose aim is nothing short of a dead world."
- Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Message
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Jacob Wren @jacobwren.bsky.social · 8d
Some favourite records of my 2025 (so far) is coming a bit late (and a bit too close to my end of year list.) But I'm doing it now because Bandcamp Friday is TODAY (Oct 3rd), so you might want to support some of these amazing artists: radicalcut.blogspot.com/2025/10/some...
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Jacob Wren @jacobwren.bsky.social · 9d
When I was young I think I wanted to be some sort of "cult writer." But now that I am in fact some sort of cult writer, I have the strange feeling that people don't even really know what that is anymore.
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Jacob Wren @jacobwren.bsky.social · 10d
I've noticed when writing I often instinctively choose a word that's just a little bit off, just slightly different than what I mean, while still being rather close to what I mean. I suppose this is out of a desire to keep everything off-kilter, ambiguous and open.
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Jacob Wren @jacobwren.bsky.social · 10d
“Change often functions more like a relay race, with new protagonists picking up where the last left off.”
– Rebecca Solnit, No Straight Road Takes You There
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Jacob Wren @jacobwren.bsky.social · 10d
“Living a love while refusing it is a very strange business.”
- Simone de Beauvoir
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