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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…
- Doing all the little tricky things it takes to grow up, step by step, into an anxious and unsettling world.
- ... I keep wanting to crawl back into the womb ...
- A terrible depression yesterday. Visions of my life petering out into a kind of soft-brained stupor from lack of use.
- Why the hell are we conditioned into the smooth strawberry-and-cream Mother-Goose-world, Alice-in-Wonderland fable, only to be broken on the wheel as we grow older and…
- Girls are not machines that you put kindness coins into until sex falls out.
- I want to force myself again and again to leave the warmth and security of static situations and move into the world of growth and…
- 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…
- There is nothing like puking with somebody to make you into old friends.
- I felt dumb and subdued. Every time I tried to concentrate, my mind glided off, like a skater, into a large empty space, and pirouetted…
- Oh what a poet I will flay myself into.
- Why honey, don't you want to get dressed?" My mother took care never to tell me to do anything. She would only reason with me…
- I have stitched life into me like a rare organ
- I am sending back the key that let me into bluebeard's study; because he would make love to me I am sending back the key;…
- Bright beads of red are rising through the ink, Hearts-blood bubbles smearing out into the black stream
- What a man wants is a mate and what a woman wants is infinite security,’ and, ‘What a man is is an arrow into the…
- I like people too much or not at all. I've got to go down deep, to fall into people, to really know them.
- When they asked some old Roman philosopher or other how he wanted to die, he said he would open his veins in a warm bath.…
- I began to think vodka was my drink at last. It didn’t taste like anything, but it went straight down into my stomach like a…
- I thought if only I had a keen, shapely bone structure to my face or could discuss politics shrewdly or was a famous writer Constantin…
- I saw the years of my life spaced along a road in the form of telephone poles threaded together by wires. I counted one, two,…
- How we need another soul to cling to, another body to keep us warm. To rest and trust; to give your soul in confidence: I…
- I opened the door and blinked out into the bright hall. I had the impression it wasn't night and it wasn't day, but some lurid…
- I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead; I lift my lids and all is born again. (I think I made you up…
- Hurl yourself at goals above your head and bear the lacerations that come when you slip and make a fool of yourself. Try always, as…
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