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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…
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It was my last act of love (first words to her mother in the hospital after her first major suicide attempt)
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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…
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The body is amazingly stubborn when it comes to sacrificing itself to the annihilating directions of the mind.
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Last year a friend went dark in a nervous city alone, the sea flashing against his glasses, the sea sorted out at…
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I guess they call it suicide, but I'm to full to swallow my pride I can't stand losing you The Police Dying…
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One night she hid the pink cotton scarf from her raincoat in the pillowcase when the nurse came around to lock up…
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The woman is perfected. Her dead Body wears the smile of accomplishment.
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Doing all the little tricky things it takes to grow up, step by step, into an anxious and unsettling world.
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Tomorrow I will curse the dawn, but there will be other, earlier nights, and the dawns will be no longer hell laid…
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You have lost all delight in life. Ahead is a large array of blind alleys. You are half-deliberately, half-desperately cutting off your…
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Look at that ugly dead mask here and do not forget it. It is a chalk mask with dead dry poison behind…
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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…
— Sylvia Plath
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Beware of writing to me. I always answer ... My father spent the last 20 years of his life writing letters. If…
— Evelyn Waugh
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I see no reason to spend your life writing poems unless your goal is to write great poems.
— Donald Hall
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Do you like reading? It's the best thing that can happen to you in life. Writing has other implications.
— Manuel Rivas
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I would willingly pass my life writing and re-writing the same book - that one book every writer carries within him -…
— Ignazio Silone
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I hope I am not too old to take it up seriously, nor too stupid about machines to qualify as a commercial…
— Samuel Beckett
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I spend all my time trying to keep thoughts away and ignore them....But here you are, trying to remember your own life,…
— Michael Scott
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And here I am, instead of there. I'm sitting in this library, thousands of miles from my life, writing another letter I…
— Jonathan Safran Foer
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And so it was settled. Sam Gamgee married Rose Cotton in the spring of 1420 (which was also famous for its weddings),…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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Work controls my life, writing controls my life, performing controls my life.
— Lemon Andersen
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The kind of true-life writing that is fun to read - that makes an ally of the reader - is the kind…
— Julie Klausner
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