The Veritas Review

The Veritas Review is a digital journal of poetry, prose & all things art. All attempts at truth & reality are approximations...
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“An animal may be ferocious and cunning enough, but it takes a real man to tell a lie.” —H.G. Wells (from The Island of Doctor Moreau)
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#lies #lying #HGWells #vivisection #GeneticEngineering #sciencefiction #VeritasReview

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“I think I went mad then.” — H.P. Lovecraft (from the story ‘Dagon’)
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#shortstory #HPLovecraft #Dagon #madness #mad #morphine #suicide #VeritasReview

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"Workers of the world, unite!" - Karl Marx (Communist Manifesto)
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#LaborDay #Workers #LaborDayQuotes #LaboringOnLaborDay #Veritas review

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David Lynch Made a Disturbing Web Sitcom Called "Rabbits": It’s Now Used by Psychologists to Induce a Sense of Existential Crisis in Research Subjects https://t.co/IjD55QybYW

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Are you working a day job while trying to make it as a writer? Don't be discouraged! Here are the day jobs of 10 famous writers. https://t.co/OagAF8qyNU

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“You can’t learn to write in college. It’s a very bad place for writers... I graduated from the library having read every single book in it.” — Ray Bradbury (Interviewed in 2010)
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#WritingAdvice #Bradbury #library #books #reading #VeritasReview

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“By the time these people swallow entire medicine cabinets or take naps in the garage or whatever, they’ve already been killing themselves for ever so long. When they ‘commit suicide,’ they’re just being orderly.” – David Foster Wallace
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#writing #suicide #DFW #VeritasReview

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How David Lynch Got Creative Inspiration? By Drinking a Milkshake at Bob’s Big Boy, Every Single Day, for Seven Straight Years https://t.co/pS0OLaJMXC

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“There is but one truly serious philosophical problem, and that is suicide. Judging whether life is or is not worth living amounts to answering the fundamental question of philosophy.” — Albert Camus (The Myth of Sisyphus)
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#Camus #suicide #philosophy #absurd #VeritasReview

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David Bowie’s Top 100 Books. A quite heady list. https://t.co/rWGNQ8RfQv

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“Writing a novel is a process. It is an experience that evolves. The novel is its own experience and its subject is always the evolving of consciousness . . . that of the reader, the author, the characters . . . the world itself.” — Joyce Carol Oates (Journals 1973—1982)

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“What's so hard about that first sentence is that you're stuck with it. Everything else is going to flow out of that sentence. And by the time you've laid down the first two sentences, your options are all gone.” — Joan Didion (Interviewed in @parisreview )
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#sentences #prose

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“I am a cat.” — Soseki Natsume (The opening sentence from Soseki Natsume’s serialized novel ‘I am a Cat’ first published whole in 1911)
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#InternationalCatDay #cat #Lechat #Elgato #Natsume #IAmACat #VeritasReview

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“We are not concerned with just any audience but a special one.” — Jerzy Grotowski
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#theater #PoorTheatre #Grotowski #borderline #dream #reality #blasphemy #language #VeritasReview

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“Until the age of thirty-five, when I wrote ‘Junky’, I had a special abhorrence for writing, for my thoughts and feeling put down on a piece of paper.... At the present time, writing appears to me as an absolute necessity.” —William S. Burroughs (Lee’s Journals, c. 1955)

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“In avoiding flatness an unremarkability, the poet makes the thought more difficult to come at, but more apt to be pondered and retained when it is found.” — John Wain (Oxford Lectures on Poetry, 1973)
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#difficultpoetry #lectures #poetry #poetrycommunity #VeritasReview

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“I may never be happy, but tonight I am content.” — Sylvia Plath (Journals, July 1950)
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#journal #happiness #contentment #poet #poetrycommunity #suicide #SylviaPlath #VeritasReview

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“Poetry has always mattered, through human history, through all kinds of cultures, all kinds of violence and human desolation.... It's been associated with the power of the word, with the sacred, with magic and transformation”— Adrienne Rich.
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#poetry #culture #VeritasReview

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“It is hopelessness even more than pain that crushes the soul.” — William Styron (Darkness Visible)
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#madness #memoir #WilliamStyron #pain #hopelessness #darkness #soul #depression #VeritasReview

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“The literary object is a peculiar top which exists only in movement. To make it come into view a concrete act called reading is necessary, and it lasts only as long as this act can last. Beyond that, there are only black marks on paper.” — Jean-Paul Sartre (What is Literature?)