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Fear is like a little germ in your head, allow it to grow and it takes over your all.Kevin Focke
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Life summed up with a marketing slogan: Limited Edition!Kevin Focke
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Focke's razor: Never attribute to plot holes that which is adequately explained by miracles.Kevin Focke
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The tragedy of art is the misalignment of merit and the perception thereof. A hype is a classic example of positive (from the creator’s perspective) misalignment. Van Gogh is a classic example of negative misalignment, a poor laggard who may enjoy the fruits of his labour rotting under the ground. Van Gogh went unrecognized, ostracized, and is now celebrated as many who have come before him, and many who will come after him. Therefore, I declare here, the Wisdom of the Crowd does not apply to art.Kevin Focke
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When I’m passionate about something I strive for excellence, judging whether or not I achieved it is up to the audience.Kevin Focke
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In my opinion, works of art should be viewed as gifts; something precious given from a point of empathy, where personal enrichment is vastly superior to the value of the gift, and the giver begs for nothing but for the gift to shine on its own.Kevin Focke
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Art has simple founding principles: Less is more, more or less; fill in the blanks with no filler.Kevin Focke
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Storytellers are master manipulators transforming non-reality (grounded in reality) into vicarious experience.Kevin Focke
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Relatable escapism can only be achieved using facets of the real world.Kevin Focke
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Naught but leaves brushed in the wind, stemming from the forest behind my house. Oh, and of course, the wildlife seized every chance to tell the stars who they were; they hooted, howled, and growled. And deep under the roots of trees in little holes lived rabbits, cuddling next to their young. All the while Mr. Ant and his colony were dragging a once boisterous Nocturnal Cicada to the nest; a feast for days! I suppose my daydreaming occasionally did extend into the night. I’ve spent countless hours I’ll never regain, but for the off-chance I was right just once, it was worth every second.Kevin Focke
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Money changes people. This process is more commonly known as trading.Kevin Focke
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Trial. (Fail.) (Succeed.) Repeat.Kevin Focke
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When you aim for the stars even if you fail you’ll be a falling star, and that’s wish-fulfilling material.Kevin Focke
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Progress is hard, achievements are easy, and giving up is easier still.Kevin Focke
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I think the suicide rate is so high among writers because we force ourselves to stand still, take an outsider’s perspective, and realise how quickly a life passes by, and how futile we are. The exhilarating upside is that at a moment’s glance all your worries fade away, and you can work on making the most of it.Kevin Focke
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You won't know how much you’ll miss someone until they’re gone. Go give them a big hug while you have the chance.Kevin Focke
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Jealousy is projected self-pity.Kevin Focke
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I don’t experience writer’s block, I only have periods of severe writer’s diarrhoea; an incoherent mess of unfitting words placed in random sentences. Luckily, I can usually separate the shit from “the shit” later on.Kevin Focke
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Be creative, be innovative, consume what everyone consumes and make it fresh!Kevin Focke
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Why should I wake up if not for myself? The others are smiling façades anyway or they’re programmed to feel joy. Push comes to shove we live in a fake world, pretending life’s always golly which is life’s greatest folly.Kevin Focke
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Death is the first and final entry in the book of this life.Kevin Focke
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It’s a sad fact that some people are only remembered once they’re dead.Kevin Focke
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We treat what’s lost, what could have never been, what we could have never dreamed of, again. We treat it like heirlooms for it is so precious. For we know it can be lost, again.Kevin Focke
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Bloated software causes IT stress farts.Kevin Focke
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It was hard to accept, but when the heart-shed of a faded sparkle was tallied, a dim fullness came over me. Maybe some things are just meant to be cherished the way they are: Unfinished, left unturned, wondering what could be and could have been.Kevin Focke
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It is infinitely easier to experience an indescribable experience than to describe it.Kevin Focke
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A coalescence of verbose convolution, veering on imperceptibility, impinges upon a plain proclamation an apparent profundity.Kevin Focke
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Love yourself’ the social horde spouts from on high, mere moments later they frown at a bypassing narcissist.Kevin Focke
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Writing complex characters is the penultimate exercise in empathy.Kevin Focke
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Bad business does not revolve around missing crossroads. It revolves around roundabouts.Kevin Focke
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-The burden of existence is bestowed upon birth.- The gift of existence is bestowed upon birth. Choose wisely, your life (and potential others' life) depend on it.Kevin Focke
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I'm the most famous person, problem is people don't know it yet…Kevin Focke
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A writer who intermingles his own opinions with that of his characters is less consequent than a fascistic communist.Kevin Focke
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Pampered content is a public resignation of artistic integrity.Kevin Focke
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Climate change is like my head: it’s not visible in every instance, but I’m pretty darn sure it’s there.Kevin Focke
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The biggest twist in fiction might be a story ending exactly how you thought it would.Kevin Focke
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Where did it go, the moderate opine? I can't find it here nor there! ' Perhaps then it's twixt the false dichotomy?Kevin Focke
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Inspiration is the crèche of your brainchildren. If you don’t feed them, they will die, and never come back. So someone please think about the children!Kevin Focke