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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 last in his…
- Read widely of others' experiences, even if it'd be more comfortable to snuggle back in the comforting cotton-wool of blissful ignorance.
- After all, we are nothing more or less than we choose to reveal.
- I have this demon who wants me to run away screaming if I am going to be flawed, fallible. It wants me to think I'm…
- Ironically, Henry James' biography comforts me & I long to make known to him his posthumous reputation he wrote, in pain, gave all his life…
- I wondered why I couldn't go the whole way doing what I should any more. This made me sad and tired. Then I wondered why…
- 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 am terrified by this dark thing That sleeps in me; All day I feel its soft, feathery turnings, its malignity. Clouds pass and disperse.…
- But when it came right down to it, the skin of my wrist looked so white and defensless that I couldn't do it. It was…
- From the night Buddy Willard kissed me and said I must go out with a lot of boys, he made me feel I was much…
- I wonder why I don't go to bed and go to sleep. But then it would be tomorrow, so I decide that no matter how…
- I must learn more about these people―try to understand them, put myself in their place. No, instead I am so busy keeping my head above…
- And what is happy? It is a going always on. There is something better to be done than I have done, and spurred by the…
- I don't know how long I kept at it... I felt reasonably safe, streched out on the floor, and lay quite still. It didn't seem…
- 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 may never be happy, but tonight I am content. Nothing more than an empty house, the warm hazy weariness from a day spent setting…
- The more hopeless you were, the further away they hid you.
- It was sometime in October; she had long ago lost track of all the days and it really didn’t matter because one was like another…
- I had been alone more than I could have been had I gone by myself.
- And, I think: I am but one more drop in the great sea of matter, defined, with the ability to realize my existence. Of the…
- Well, I know now. I know a little more how much a simple thing like a snowfall can mean to a person
- I am jealous of those who think more deeply, who write better, who draw better, who ski better, who look better, who live better, who…
- So you got rid of your astonishment that someone could write so much more dynamically than you. You stopped cherishing your aloneness and poetic differentness…
- I am but one more drop in the great sea of matter, defined, with the ability to realize my existence.
- Why can’t I try on different lives, like dresses, to see which fits best and is more becoming?
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