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“I quit my job just to quit. I didn't quit my job to write fiction. I just didn't want to work anymore.” ―Don DeLillo
Matthew Dexter
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Matthew Dexter
@matthewbdexter
Author | Expatriate | Living in Ethereal Paradise: Cabo San Lucas, Baja California Sur, México 🇲🇽
- Best beach is an empty beach. I'm still alive. I sporadically post ethereal videos from my tropical beach. Follow your dreams. You don't need to write yourself to a private beach at a young age, but it's possible. If I did it, you can. Sky's the limit! 🏖🇲🇽🪅💯☀️🎏📚💙🌊⛵🐳💦
00:00 - I received a novel acceptance letter today. It's possible that I could have a new story collection, my debut essay collection, and my next novel published this autumn. It feels like I'm never productive enough. Even though I work round-the-clock. This would be a big step forward.
- Thridrangar (Þrídrangar) Lighthouse, Iceland. Þrídrangar means "three rock pillars" and the lighthouse was built there in 1939. The only access to the Þrídrangar lighthouse is by helicopter. Thridrangar Lighthouse, Southern Iceland 📸 via Árni Sæberg
- "This morning, I was assailed by such sadness at the velocity of life, the distance I've travelled from my own youth, the persistence of the old regrets, the new regrets, the ability of failure to freshen itself in novel forms, that I almost crashed the car." —Denis Johnson
- "We're all going to die, all of us, what a circus! That alone should make us love each other but it doesn't. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities, we are eaten up by nothing." ―Henry Charles Bukowski (August 16, 1920 – March 9, 1994)
- "True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country." ―Kurt Vonnegut
- I have fallen into an abyss. I live in a world so curious, so strange. Of the dream that was my life, this is my nightmare. ―Camille Claudel
