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- God, if ever I have come close to wanting to commit suicide, it is now, with the groggy sleepless blood dragging through my veins, and…
- One night she hid the pink cotton scarf from her raincoat in the pillowcase when the nurse came around to lock up her drawers and…
- A terrible depression yesterday. Visions of my life petering out into a kind of soft-brained stupor from lack of use.
- This seemed a dreary and wasted life for a girl with fifteen years of straight A's, but I knew that's what marriage was like, because…
- The moon, too, abases her subjects, but in the daytime she is ridiculous. Your dissatisfactions, on the other hand, arrive through the mailslot with loving…
- See, the darkness is leaking from the cracks. I cannot contain it. I cannot contain my life.
- Is to throw together events from my own life, fictionalizing to add color—it’s a pot boiler really, but I think it will show how isolated…
- As from a star I saw, coldly and soberly, the separateness of everything. I felt the wall of my skin; I am I. That stone…
- I am afraid of getting married. Spare me from cooking three meals a dayspare me from the relentless cage of routine and rote.
- 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…
- I feel, am mad as any writer must in one way be; why not make it real? I am too close to the bourgeois society…
- If you expect nothing from anybody, you’re never disappointed.
- 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 must get my soul back from you; I am killing my flesh without it.
- I'm doped and thick from my last sleeping pill.
- No day is safe from news of you.
- I saw the days of the year stretching ahead like a series of bright, white boxes, and separating one box from another was sleep, like…
- With me, the present is forever, and forever is always shifting, flowing, melting. This second is life. And when it is gone it is dead.…
- And when at last you find someone to whom you feel you can pour out your soul, you stop in shock at the words you…
- Although, I admit, I desire, Occasionally, some backtalk From the mute sky, I can't honestly complain: A certain minor light may still Lean incandescent Out…
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