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One really ought to be afraid of self-torture. But it tempted me. It begged. The dark place that my mind was fast…
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[I] learned ... that friends are a good source of food and soul when one has not yet gotten the hang of…
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You will miss her sometimes. Bear in mind she's trying to kill you. Bear in mind you have a life to live.
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I wish I could find words to explain what this kind of cold is like- the cold that has somehow gotten in…
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Somewhere in the back of my brain there exists this certainty: The body is no more than a costume, and can be…
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You will not stop. The pain is necessary, especially the pain of hunger. It reassures you that you are strong, can withstand…
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Starvation is incredibly frightening when it finally sets in with a vengeance. And when it does,you are surprised. You hadn't meant this.…
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Recovery isn’t easy, at first. It takes time. It takes more work, sometimes, than you think you’re willing to do. But it…
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So many means of self-destruction, so little time.
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We think of bulimia and anorexia as either a bizarre psychosis, or as a quirky little habit, a phase, or as a…
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The problem is that you don't just choose recovery. You have to keep choosing recovery, over and over and over again. You…
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In truth, you like the pain. You like it because you believe you deserve it.
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If you wrote about sex the way Jim [Salter] writes about sex in nonfiction, you would be a sociopath.
— Lorin Stein
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In nonfiction, you have that limitation, that constraint, of telling the truth.
— Peter Matthiessen
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Whenever you have two characters in a book, whether it's a novel or nonfiction, you run the risk that the reader is…
— Mitch Albom
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When you deal with nonfiction you deal with human characters.
— Marya Hornbacher
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Writing fiction is for me a fraught business, an occasion of daily dread for at least the first half of the novel,…
— Joan Didion
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In fiction, when you paint yourself into a corner, you can write a pair of suction cups onto the bottoms of your…
— Tom Robbins
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When you write fiction, you can sort of invent more but also pack it with emotions that are very pertinent to you.…
— Oscar Hijuelos
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