"Every woman adores a Fascist, The boot in the face, the brute Brute heart of a brute like you."
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"I tried to speak in a cool, calm way, but the zombie rose up in my throat and choked me off."
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"Cold glass, how you insert yourself Between myself and myself. I scratch like a cat. The blood that runs is dark fruit- An effect, a cosmetic. You smile. No, it is not fatal."
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"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 felt my eardrums would burst with it."
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"I feel occasionally my skull will crack, fatigue is continuous - I only go from less exhausted to more exhausted & back again."
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"What is my life for and what am I going to do with it? I don't know and I'm afraid."
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"I do not love; I do not love anybody except myself. That is a rather shocking thing to admit."
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"So I kiss him, and there is the great dark sea ahead."
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"I am terrified by this dark thing That sleeps in me; All day I feel its soft, feathery turnings, its malignity."
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"I must bridge the gap between adolescent glitter and mature glow."
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"Your body Hurts me as the world hurts God"
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"You are a dream; I hope I never meet you."
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"I wondered what I thought I was burying."
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"The lawn was white with doctors"
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"I felt the mask crumple, the great poisonous store of corrosive ashes begin to spew out of my mouth."
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"For the few little successes I may seem to have, there are acres of misgivings and self-doubt."
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"My wanting to write books annihilates the original root impulse that would have me bravely and blunderingly working on them."
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"I started adding up all the things I couldn't do."
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"If only a group of people were more important to me than the idea of a Novel, I might begin a novel."
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"With me, the present is forever, and forever is always shifting, flowing, melting. This second is life. And when it is gone it is dead. But you can't start over with each new second. You have to judge by what is dead. It's like quicksand... hopeless from the start."
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