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- You ask me why I spend my life writing? Do I find entertainment? Is it worthwhile? Above all, does it pay? If not, then, is…
- Doing all the little tricky things it takes to grow up, step by step, into an anxious and unsettling world.
- You have lost all delight in life. Ahead is a large array of blind alleys. You are half-deliberately, half-desperately cutting off your grip on creative…
- ... you looked around and saw everybody either married or busy and happy and thinking and being creative, and you felt scared, sick, lethargic, worst…
- When you are insane, you are busy being insane-all the time ... when I was crazy, that was all I was.
- Tonight I am ugly. I have lost all faith in my ability to attract males, and in the female animal that is a rather pathetic…
- If I didn't think, I'd be much happier; if I didn't have any sex organs, I wouldn't waver on the brink of nervous emotion and…
- The sickness rolled through me in great waves. After each wave it would fade away and leave me limp as a wet leaf and shivering…
- Sometimes I feel like I'm not solid. I'm hollow. There's nothing behind my eyes. I'm a negative of a person. All I want is blackness,…
- After all, we are nothing more or less than we choose to reveal.
- The lyric abstrusities of Auden ring mystically down the circular canals of my ear and it begins to look like snow. The good gray conservative…
- Outcast on a cold star, unable to feel anything but an awful helpless numbness. I look down into the warm, earthy world. Into a nest…
- I could never be a complete scholar or a complete housewife ora completewriter: Imustcombinea little of all, and thereby be imperfect in all.
- Ironically, Henry James' biography comforts me & I long to make known to him his posthumous reputation he wrote, in pain, gave all his life…
- I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead; I lift my eyes and all is born again.
- There I went again, building up a glamorous picture of a man who would love me passionately the minute he met me, and all out…
- The trouble was, I had been inadequate all along, I simply hadn't thought about it.
- Backward we traveled to reclaim the day Before we fell, like Icarus, undone; All we find are altars in decay And profane words scrawled black…
- That’s one of the reasons I never wanted to get married. The last thing I wanted was infinite security and to be the place an…
- Remember, remember, this is now, and now, and now. Live it, feel it, cling to it. I want to become acutely aware of all I’ve…
- All the heat and fear had purged itself. I felt surprisingly at peace. The bell jar hung suspended a few feet above my head. I…
- Yes, my consuming desire is to mingle with road crews, sailors and soldiers, barroom regulars—to be a part of a scene, anonymous, listening, recording—all this…
- There is something demoralizing about watching two people get more and more crazy about each other, especially when you are the only extra person in…
- I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want.…
- I am terrified by this dark thing That sleeps in me; All day I feel its soft, feathery turnings, its malignity. Clouds pass and disperse.…
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