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The rigors of creativity - the self-doubt, the revising, the solitude - do require a kind of self-consumption. It comes at a cost; a cost that isn't for everyone.

~David Rakoff

Topics: Cost Creativity Everyone Kind Require Self-Doubt Solitude

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Deprived of the opportunity to judge one another by the cars we drive, New Yorkers, thrown together daily on mass transit, form silent opinions based on our choices of subway reading. Just by glimpsing the cover staring back at us, we can reach the pinnacle of carnal desire or the depths of hatred. Soul mate or mortal enemy.

~David Rakoff

Topics: Another Back Based Car Carnal Choices Cover Daily Deprived Depths Desire Drive Enemy Form Hatred Judge Just Mass Mate Mortal New New Yorkers Opinions Opportunity Our Pinnacle Reach Reading Silent Soul Soul Mate Staring Subway Thrown Together Transit Us

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I'm anti-religious. I don't like people telling me what to do.

~David Rakoff

Topics: Like Me People Telling

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It's rare that I'm not at work on some sort of craft project. I've often enthused about the need to make things; how it employs a unique set of muscles - physical, intellectual, spiritual - that I can attain a state of flow when making something that I almost never can when writing.

~David Rakoff

Topics: About Almost Attain Craft Employs Flow How Intellectual Make Making Muscles Need Never Often Physical Project Rare Set Some Something Sort Spiritual State Things Unique Work Writing I Can

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I have let half-decades elapse between books because books have to be writte and writing is awful, but if you are the type of person who makes things, there is no profit in worrying about how or why or when the next project will come into being beyond simply acknowledging that it is inevitable that it will be very soon.

~David Rakoff

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Biography

Nationality: Canadian

Type: Writer

Born: November 27th, 1964

Died: August 9th, 2012

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