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• There is no patience so terrible as that of the deranged.
• I'll burn myself, or I'll cut myself. For a burn or a cut might be shown, might be nursed, might scar or…
• For was that all, she thought bleakly, that love ever was? Something that saved one from loneliness? A sort of insurance policy…
• I barely knew I had skin before I met you.
• Read like mad. But try to do it analytically - which can be hard, because the better and more compelling a novel…
• Cut like crazy. Less is more. I've often read manuscripts - including my own - where I've got to the beginning of,…
• We have a name for your disease. We call it a hyper-aesthetic one. You have been encouraged to over-indulge yourself in literature;…
• She supposed that houses, after all - like the lives that were lived in them - were mostly made of space. It…
• All unwillingly I opened my eyes - then I opened them wider, and lifted my head. The heat, my weariness, were quite…
• And perhaps there is a limit to the grieving that the human heart can do. As when one adds salt to a…
• Why do gentlemen's voices carry so clearly, when women's are so easily stifled?
• It's a curious, wanting thing.

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