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The suicide does not play the game, does not observe the rules. He leaves the party too soon, and leaves the other…
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The institution of marriage is just formalizing an emotion, an attempt to make it seem permanent. The emotion will last or it…
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I write so much because my cat sits on my lap. She purrs so I don't want to get up. She's so…
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The body can't distinguish between cleansing and punishing for the body is ignorant, and mute besides.
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Alone, she took hot baths and sat exhausted in the steaming water, wondering at her perpetual exhaustion. All that winter she noticed…
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Blood transforms the warm bath water and, in it, I see weakly that this was a mistake. The razor's cut is not…
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The brain is a muscle of busy hills, the struggle of unthought things with things eternally thought.
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The mere passage of time makes us all exiles.
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Running! If there's any activity happier, more exhilarating, more nourishing to the imagination, I can't think of what it might be.
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Of the widow's countless death-duties there is really just one that matters: on the first anniversary of her husband's death the widow…
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Critics sometimes appear to be addressing themselves to works other than those I remember writing.
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We are the species that clamors to be lied to.
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The one thing I find the least romantic is taking a horse and carriage ride. I can't express enough how unhappy these…
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It's difficult for the public to realize how powerful the mind is, and how much pain the mind can give you. When…
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The trick is not how much pain you feel - but how much joy you feel
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I Don't Think There's A Good Excuse For Being Unhappy. I'm Not Particularly Unhappy, But I Know What Pain Is. I think…
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How much pain they have cost us, the evils which have never happened.
— Thomas Jefferson
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When I wrote 'We Were The Mulvaneys,' I was just old enough to look back upon my own family life and the…
— Joyce Carol Oates
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And the very act of living is a tide; at first it seems to make no difference at all, and then one…
— Jodi Picoult
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The trick is not how much pain you feel--but how much joy you feel. Any idiot can feel pain. Life is full…
— Erica Jong
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Now and then I see something in her eyes, and I wonder if I’ve ever grasped how much pain she’s really in.
— Stephenie Meyer
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I'm supposed to be a christian, but most days I don't feel like I can even presume to say that about myself…
— Charlaine Harris
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We cannot count on God to arrange what happens in our lives in ways that will make us feel good.We can, however,…
— Larry Crabb
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You have no idea how much pain I'm in. It's like being cut open every day, bleeding onto the stones. I can't…
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