A Quote by Eileen Myles
Urban nature is like living with mass conditions. It sometimes feels like a myth & you are its scribe.
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It was apparent that no one could do for the scribe what the scribe had done for himself.
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It feels like every person is using their whole brain and heart to figure out these nearly impossible dilemmas about how we do our work, with our principles, in the current conditions. And it feels like the thing we know to be true about working collectively - that we have better ideas together than we do individually.
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