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Jacob Wren @jacobwren.bsky.social · 6h

"I had two longings and one was fighting the other. I wanted to be loved and I wanted to be always alone."
– Jean Rhys

Jacob Wren @jacobwren.bsky.social · 1d

"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 · 1d

"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

Jacob Wren @jacobwren.bsky.social · 2d

From my 2011 manifesto Manifesto for Confusion, Struggle and Conflicted Feelings: radicalcut.blogspot.com/2011/05/mani...

Jacob Wren @jacobwren.bsky.social · 2d

"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 · 2d

"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 · 4d

"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 · 5d

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 · 5d

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 · 6d

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 · 6d

“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 · 7d

“Living a love while refusing it is a very strange business.”
- Simone de Beauvoir

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Jacob Wren @jacobwren.bsky.social · 7d

“…don’t try to do it all in this life, or you won’t be left with anything good to do in the next.”
– Max Besora, The Adventures and Misadventures of Joan Orpí...

Jacob Wren @jacobwren.bsky.social · 7d

Some favourite records of my 2025 (so far): radicalcut.blogspot.com/2025/10/some...

Jacob Wren @jacobwren.bsky.social · 7d

"Art allows you to watch the sunset with your demons."
- Misan Harriman

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Jacob Wren @jacobwren.bsky.social · 8d

“My theory is that a poem is troubled into its making. It’s not like a thing that blooms; it’s a thing that wounds. I had a terror I could tell to none, as Dickinson would say.”
- Lucie Brock-Broido

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Jacob Wren @jacobwren.bsky.social · 8d

"I have to constantly re-identify myself to myself, reactivate my own standards, my own convictions about what I'm doing and why."
- Nina Simone

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Jacob Wren @jacobwren.bsky.social · 9d

More info here: radicalcut.blogspot.com/2025/09/pme-...

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Jacob Wren @jacobwren.bsky.social · 9d

"If love and sex were easier
we would choose something else
to suffer."
– June Jordan, Last Poem for a Little While

Jacob Wren @jacobwren.bsky.social · 9d

"She thought the world was a good idea that had failed."
- Carolivia Herron, Thereafter Johnnie

Jacob Wren @jacobwren.bsky.social · 10d

"Error is one of my inevitable ways of working."
– Clarice Lispector, The Passion According to G.H.

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Jacob Wren @jacobwren.bsky.social · 10d

“…it happened several years ago, a step into uncertainty that left him with the lingering fear that he’s resigned from human society the way you resign from a political party.”
– Wolfgang Hilbig, The Interim (translated by Isabel Fargo Cole)

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Jacob Wren @jacobwren.bsky.social · 11d

"Life is very short, and it ought not to be spent crawling at the feet of miserable scoundrels."
~ Stendhal (as quoted by Andrei Tarkovsky in his diaries)

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Jacob Wren @jacobwren.bsky.social · 11d

I link to them here: radicalcut.blogspot.com/2025/09/list...