Jonathan Culver Quotes

• The English language is a work in progress. Have fun with it.

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• Art that does nothing new, that simply fills an established role, is not art. It is a product. A stale, stagnant product of a disgustingly mundane process that has been done so much it is assumed mandatory. Little different than feces.

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• Artists are agents of chaos. It is the artists job to encourage entropy, to promote chaos. Idols must be killed, icons crushed, beliefs shattered. It is the artists job to encourage legitimate, unadulterated, raw thought and emotion.

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• Lying to other people isn’t hard. It’s lying to yourself that’s the trouble.

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• I can arrange all of these little symbols together to invoke emotions and ideas at a whim out of whosoever allows me to cast my spell. It does not take a man and a woman to create. It just takes a writer.

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• I write because writing is power. Writing is creation. When you write, you are as a god, a deity wielding his pen like some Harry Potter staff, making whatever you want to happen, happen.

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• I think it is the duty of all human beings, as intelligent and communicative beings, to learn all the ideas thought up before ours and use them as a means to think up new ones.

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• On this moment Huey’s balls grew three sizes. By Huey’s estimates, this made them inhumanly enormous. Ginormous even. In Spanish, the word for testicles is “juevos”. This is also the word for eggs. On this moment, Huey’s juevos were hard boiled.

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• Well I’ve just been thinking, and don’t you think it’s kind of, well, kind of vain, to decide we need to make little clones of ourselves when the worlds already pretty overpopulated. It’s just not practical and kind of greedy.

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• I don’t deserve progress. I deserve un-progress. I’m just an asshole. I’m not enlightened. I’m an idiot. A grade SS fucking idiot.

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• It’s just so quiet out here. Not like the quiet in the house. This is different. This is a quiet you can‟t fight, you can’t change. This silence is bigger than you and me, we don‟t cause it. It’s like Gods refusal to speak.

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• In times of war or peace the US will gladly pay a man to fail should his heart be in it, a small shimmering proof of the American dream.

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• I want to bleed ink and shit prose.

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• With the manipulation of abstract symbols, an artist can send you information without sound, change your feelings and, sometimes, even beliefs. Artists convey the unspeakable. Artists inspire.

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• If it aint broke, break it. Then build something better.

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• I want to never settle for anything less than my soul on paper.

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Jonathan Culver (16)

Birth:	7th December, 1984
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Author

About

Jonathan Culver moved throughout the midwest before settling down in Bogard, Missouri in 1994 and later in nearby Carrollton, Missouri in 2002. He published his first novel, "Huey Lambert's Walking Nuclear Circus", in 2008. He was a co-founder of the Warrensburg, Missouri chapter of the Secular Student Alliance in 2010, has worked as a member of the comedy troupe "Tyrannosaurus Beat Box" since 2008, and was the founder of the "Save Camp Zoe" movement in 2010.

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