Whenever people asked him how his poems were going, he’d answer that he was just “living the poems he wasn’t writing.” He’d say that with a straight face. It made him wince to even think about. But now, this journey into the city felt like what he’d meant then—looking at all the shattered fundament of his living and thinking “this will be useful, I’ll use all this later”—as a writer there was always that. It always gave him a faint shudder of guilt to think this way, but it wasn’t something he could turn off."
— Kaveh Akbar, Martyr!: A Novel (Knopf, January 23, 2024)
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me: im not gonna procrastinate at uni. that is a thing of the past. im done
task: *requires slightly more effort*
me: its due for thursday. it can wait
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Remus: "Peter, you need to stop avoiding your responsibilities."
Peter: "Moony, I'm the master of 'I solemnly swear to procrastinate."
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I love how my procrastination tries to tempt fate. How patient will this person be? Let’s see how long they’re willing to wait past the due date.
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I got sick....
….of waiting for me to finish this.
Ugh.
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It would be nice to get better at writing. It would be nice to make a little book of all the injunctions you have towards yourself.
— Sheila Heti, Alphabetical Diaries (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, February 6, 2024)
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