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• I really look at my childhood as being one giant rusty tuna can that I continue to recycle in many different shapes.
• I think people tend to see the bigger point, which is maybe not fitting in and feeling like you didn't have the…
• For exactly the same reason, it is sometimes satisfying to cut yourself and bleed. On those gray [sic] days where eight in…
• Each time my mother went psychotic, I hoped it would be the last time. Afterward she would tell me, 'I think that…
• The secret to being a writer is that you have to write. It's not enough to think about writing or to study…
• Women smirk at baldness. How adorable would they find it if they began to lose their breasts in their late twenties? If…
• Marriage is overdone. As long as there are people, people are going to find it interesting.
• Applause is a constant thing in AA. It's how we buy drinks for each other.
• I realized I could really become hooked on these happy pills. They gave me a glorious feeling of general well-being and didn't…
• There's not enough of me left over.
• Freshly brainwashed from rehab, I carry the bottle into the bathroom. I hold it up to the light. See the pretty bottle?…
• Reading takes solitude and it takes focus.

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