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- But when I took up my pen, my hand made big, jerky letters like those of a child, and the lines sloped down the page…
- 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…
- I had imagined a kind, ugly, intuitive man looking up and say, 'Ah!' in an encouraging way, as if he could see something I couldn't,…
- I saw myself sitting in the crotch of this fig tree, starving to death, just because I couldn't make up my mind which of the…
- There is a certain unique and strange delight about walking down an empty street alone. There is an off-focus light cast by the moon, and…
- ..I fancied you'd return the way you said, But I grow old and I forget your name. (I think I made you up inside my…
- When I was nineteen, pureness was the great issue. Instead of the world being divided up into Catholics and Protestants or Republicans and Democrats or…
- I lay in that tub on the seventeenth floor of this hotel for-women-only, high up over the jazz and push of New York, for near…
- I don't see,' I said, 'how people stand being old. Your insides all dry up. When you're young you're so self-reliant. You don't even need…
- A little thing, like children putting flowers in my hair, can fill up the widening cracks in my self-assurance like soothing lanolin.
- I felt very low. I had been unmasked only that morning by Jay Cee herself, and I felt now that all the uncomfortable suspicions I…
- I dreamed that you bewitched me into bed And sung me moon-struck, kissed me quite insane. (I think I made you up inside my head.)
- I need more than anything right now what is, of course, most impossible, someone to love me, to be with me at night when I…
- I'm never going to get married." "You're crazy." Buddy brightened. "You'll change your mind." "No. My mind's made up.
- I buried my head under the darkness of the pillow and pretended it was night. I couldn't see the point of getting up. I had…
- And so I rehabilitate myself - staying up late this Friday night in spite of vowing to go to bed early, because it is more…
- I thought it sounded just like the sort of drug a man would invent. Here was a woman in terrible pain, obviously feeling every bit…
- As I lay on my back in bed staring up at the blank, white ceiling the stillness seemed to grow bigger and bigger until I…
- I tried to speak in a cool, calm way, but the zombie rose up in my throat and choked me off.
- I only know that a rook Ordering its black feathers can so shine As to seize me senses, haul My eyelids up, and grant A…
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