- Jim Proser
- January 31, 2014
- 3:39 am
All my life I’ve only had one ambition and that was to be a great writer like Hemingway or Philip Roth or Vonnegut. I’ve been distracted a lot, by sex, by friends, by sex with friends, by movies, by deaths of loved ones. These all took time – years.
Now I see how I’ve lost focus and how I’ve been discouraged. These too, took time. So I’ve paired my life down to one woman, one business and fewer friends. I look at my few achievements and I am gratified that I’ve accomplished even the little I have but the past “hangs on me like chains” as Orson Welles once said after his second personal bottle of wine at lunch.
I have stories, so many more than I could ever tell and now a bit more time to tell them. If I can just lift these chains a bit to free my hands.
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