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I learned how not to be alone in the playground.

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I have a profound interest in embroidery, as I have female ancestors on both sides who embroidered their way through great trials.

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Topics: Ancestors Both Both Sides Embroidery Female Great Interest Profound Sides Through Trials Way Who

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There's the way that light shows in darkness, and it is extremely beautiful. And I think it essentializes the experience of being human, to see light in darkness.

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Topics: Beautiful Being Being Human Darkness Experience Extremely Human Light See Shows Think Way I Think

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Becoming a monster sometimes isn't a choice that you have. We're all that; we're all 'the other' in one way or another.

~Emil Ferris

Topics: Another Becoming Choice Monster One Way Other Sometimes Way You

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Monsters are a departure from 'reality' in a way that allows for a range of fantastic possibilities. I mean this within the world of literature as well as in regards to art. When I sit down to draw, I'm energized by the possibility of creating a monster. That is where I find beauty and pathos.

~Emil Ferris

Topics: Art Beauty Creating Departure Down Draw Fantastic Find Literature Mean Monster Monsters Pathos Possibilities Possibility Range Reality Regards Sit Way Well Where Within World

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I was born with fairly serious scoliosis, and I did not walk at all until I was about two-and-a-half years old.

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Topics: About Born Did Fairly Old Serious Until Walk Years I Was Born

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My parents met at the Art Institute of Chicago as students, and somewhere in there, they procreated off to the side and created me.

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Topics: Art Chicago Created Institute Me Met Off Parents Side Somewhere Students

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My mother was very, very beautiful, and I saw that the beautiful women around me were often constrained not only by their beauty but by the way that being an object of male desire frequently caused violence in their lives. And it caused them to be constrained in these terribly sad ways - their brilliance was not valued.

~Emil Ferris

Topics: Around Beautiful Beautiful Women Beauty Being Brilliance Caused Constrained Desire Frequently Lives Male Me Mother Object Often Only Sad Saw Terribly Them Valued Very Violence Way Ways Were Women

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The hardest thing is in terms of the drawing, because, you know, I really have to work to keep my hand fluid, and I've done a lot of recovery, but it's not the same as it once was.

~Emil Ferris

Topics: Because Done Drawing Fluid Hand Hardest Hardest Thing Keep Know Lot Once Really Recovery Same Terms The Hardest Thing Thing Work You

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I still do love monsters. And when I was a kid, they were really important to me. I couldn't wait for Saturday night.

~Emil Ferris

Topics: Important Kid Love Me Monsters Night Really Saturday Saturday Night Still Wait Were

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: Unknown

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