Once you leave, you're no longer of that country, but you are never actually of the country that you go to, and if you go back, you're not anywhere. You never belong to anything.

Jessa Crispin

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I don't think you can write an experience as you're having it without being an idiot.

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I mean, many times your creative problem is accidentally your personal problem, but it's not quite the same.

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Most of what I do is for creative people - writers and painters and photographers - trying to work through creative problems.

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I have yet to get sued. My father thinks I should get liability insurance.

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I understand maybe some people are more impressionable than my hard, cynical self, but maybe they need to figure out how to be less of that.

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I don't tell clients what to do. I don't even really tell them what the future is.

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I believe in free will.

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Just send the emails and talk to people. Spend all your money on nail polish and opera tickets.

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I would never tell anybody to get a divorce.

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