"I inhabit the wax image of myself, a doll's body. Sickness begins here; I am a dartboard for witches."
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"You know what lies are for."
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"I, to you, am lost in the gorgeous errors of flesh."
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"It was my last act of love (first words to her mother in the hospital after her first major suicide attempt)"
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"I am accused. I dream of massacres. I am a garden of black and red agonies. I drink them, Hating myself, hating and fearing. And now the world conceives Its end and runs toward it, arms held out in love."
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"Miracles occur, If you dare to call those spasmodic Tricks of radiance miracles. The wait's begun again, The long wait for the angel, For that rare, random descent."
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"Like a cat I have nine times to die."
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"The trouble about jumping was that if you didn't pick the right number of stories, you might still be alive when you hit bottom."
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"My flesh winced, in cowardice, from such a death."
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"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 unto an hour, and I felt myself growing pure again. I don't believe in baptism or the waters of Jordan or anything like that, but I guess I feel about a hot bath the way those religious people feel about holy water."
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"But writing poems and letters doesn't seem to do much good."
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"How can I tell Bob that my happiness streams from having wrenched a piece out of my life, a piece of hurt and beauty, and transformed it to typewritten words on paper? How can he know I am justifying my life, my keen emotions, my feeling, by turning it into print?"
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"…beating time along the edge of thought."
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"Do we always grind through the present, doomed to throw a gold haze of fond retrospect over the past?"
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"No, I won't try to escape myself by losing myself in artificial chatter 'Did you have a nice vacation?' 'Oh, yes, and you?' I'll stay here and try to pin that loneliness down."
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"I want to be silverly beautiful."
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"I could feel the winter shaking my bones and banging my teeth together."
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"And there's the fallacy of existence: the idea that one could be happy forever and age with a given situation or series of accomplishments."
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"They had to call and call And pick the worms off me like sticky pearls."
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"The sun gives you ulcers, the wind gives you T.B. Once you were beautiful."
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