Desk Notes by Charles Schifano

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Spend a little time with Dostoevsky if you’re ever feeling a bit glum.
Charles Schifano
To spend the majority of your time crafting artificial symbols on a surface—whether your medium is stone, paper, or pixels—will always be a curious…
Charles Schifano
Discoveries are perfectly acceptable in the wild, but I prefer to avoid them in my apartment.
Charles Schifano
Museum exhibit labels have the peculiar quality of giving you both too much and not enough information.
Charles Schifano
To read an incomplete manuscript is to catch a writer in the nude.
Charles Schifano
If you are ever lost in an Italian city, look for Dante Alighieri street.
Charles Schifano
Tossing out the word fate might be sufficient to hush most dinner parties.
Charles Schifano
Despite the desires of some readers, nobody should expect any good novels about Covid.
Charles Schifano
He will forever have grand plans for the world, and the world will forever disappoint him with its failures.
Charles Schifano
Most contemporary non-fiction books take three hundred pages to tell a one hundred page story.
Charles Schifano
When the dark-haired boy jumps into the street, I have the clearest view.
Charles Schifano
The year is 1955, and we’re in London, amid the bustle and pomp and fuss of a fashion house.
Charles Schifano
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