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Empiricus
from South Carolina (United States) on 2005-02-15 20:34 [#01500511]
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As children we would escape by retreating into our imagination; as adults most of us have long since lost most of our imaginative capacites, so instead we retreat into intoxicants. Truely gifted artistic people seem to have somehow retained this capacity - thus, the old idea that great suffering is condusive to the creation of great art becomes an obvious one. The artist escapes into his or her imagination (even if intoxicants are also used), and presto - a depressed substance abuser presents the world with the works of a Jackson Pollack, Emily Dickenson, Poe, etc.
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weatheredstoner
from same shit babes. (United States) on 2005-02-15 20:35 [#01500512]
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I use intoxicants to forget about the world I live in.
I dont think the creativity really dissapears. For me at least.
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weatheredstoner
from same shit babes. (United States) on 2005-02-15 20:35 [#01500513]
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just bad grammar
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thecurbcreeper
from United States on 2005-02-15 20:37 [#01500517]
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some people just enjoy life
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w M w
from London (United Kingdom) on 2005-02-15 20:42 [#01500527]
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And excellent optimistic post oh creeper of curbs and single fan of the critic.
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pomme de terre
from obscure body in the SK System on 2005-02-15 20:44 [#01500529]
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I thought this thread was going to be about the imaginative capacity of corn fritters.
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Empiricus
from South Carolina (United States) on 2005-02-15 20:46 [#01500531]
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"When you drank the world was still out there, but for the moment it didn't have you by the throat." - Bukowski
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Empiricus
from South Carolina (United States) on 2005-02-15 20:47 [#01500533]
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I love that quote.
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