Always writing against this truth, in the way that a painter must have a surface to hit.

Actually it's not really plagiarism, here's why: these are lyrics from Jets To Brazil songs, "Wishlist" and "The Frequency", respectively. The former also has the line "They took my words and wrote them off as passing. It pissed me off enough to keep me writing." Good stuff. 

I'm not the kind of person who emulates indie rock stars, but if I were, I'd emulate Blake.



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Quoting song lyrics, how profound. Why don't you write them on the back of your notebook while you're at it? Seriously now, what are you doing?
I dunno.
Well, figure it out.  It's like a friend has written in sharpie on his computer monitor:
writers write.

Fair enough. Thanks for the pep talk.
You're welcome.
Did I mention you're turning into your dad?
Fuck off. By the way, this doesn't count as writing.