"Why can’t I try on different lives, like dresses, to see which fits best and is more becoming?"
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"I have the choice of being constantly active and happy or introspectively passive and sad. Or I can go mad by ricocheting in between."
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"because wherever I sat—on the deck of a ship or at a street café in Paris or Bangkok—I would be sitting under the same glass bell jar, stewing in my own sour air."
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"Widow. The word consumes itself."
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"And I, stepping from this skin Of old bandages, boredoms, old faces Step to you from the black car of Lethe, Pure as a baby."
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"Hour by hour, day by day, life becomes possible."
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"Nothing stinks like a pile of unpublished writing."
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"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 as if what I wanted to kill wasn't in that skin or the thin blue pulse that jumped under my thumb, but somewhere else, deeper, more secret, and a whole lot harder to get."
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"Yes, my consuming desire is to mingle with road crews, sailors and soldiers, barroom regulars - to be a part of a scene, anonymous, listening, recording - all this is spoiled by the fact that I am a girl, a female always supposedly in danger of assault and battery. My consuming interest in men and their lives is often misconstrued as a desire to seduce them, or as an invitation to intimacy. Yes, God, I want to talk to everybody as deeply as I can. I want to be able to sleep in an open field, to travel west, to walk freely at night."
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"To the person in the bell jar, blank and stopped as a dead baby, the world itself is a bad dream."
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"There is nothing like puking with somebody to make you into old friends."
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"I want to taste and glory in each day, and never be afraid to experience pain; and never shut myself up in a numb core of nonfeeling, or stop questioning and criticizing life and take the easy way out. To learn and think: to think and live; to live and learn: this always, with new insight, new understanding, and new love."
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"Backward we traveled to reclaim the day Before we fell, like Icarus, undone; All we find are altars in decay And profane words scrawled black across the sun."
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"After all, we are nothing more or less than we choose to reveal."
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"Opinions are like orgasms...mine matters most and I really don't care if you have one."
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"I write only because There is a voice within me That will not be still"
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"Stars open among the lilies. Are you not blinded by such expressionless sirens? This is the silence of astounded souls."
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"The hardest thing, I think, is to live richly in the present, without letting it be tainted & spoiled out of fear for the future or regret for a badly-managed past."
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"How we need another soul to cling to, another body to keep us warm. To rest and trust; to give your soul in confidence: I need this, I need someone to pour myself into."
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"I think I made you up inside my head."
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