"I collect men with interesting names."
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"I need not to be more with others, but to be more & more deeply, richly alone. Recreating worlds."
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"I feel terribly vulnerable and 'not-myself' when I'm not writing."
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"I must learn more about these people―try to understand them, put myself in their place. No, instead I am so busy keeping my head above water that I scarcely know who I am, much less who anyone else is."
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"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 had about myself were coming true. After nineteen years of running after good marks and prizes and grants of one sort and another, I was letting up, slowing down, dropping clean out of race."
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"I am still raw. I say I may be back. You know what lies are for. Even in your Zen heaven we shan't meet."
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"Joy:show joy & enjoy: then others will be joyful."
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"The silence between us was so profound I thought part of it must be my fault."
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"I keep wanting to crawl back into the womb."
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"How many different deaths I can die?"
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"If there's anything I look down on, it's a man in a blue outfit."
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"I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in life."
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"And I am aware of my heart: it opens and closes Its bowl of red blooms out of sheer love of me."
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"Last year a friend went dark in a nervous city alone, the sea flashing against his glasses, the sea sorted out at last in his inner ear so he could leave this world as he'd entered it through the undependable irrational influence of water. -Kevin Jeffery Clark 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 at."
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"A million years of evolution, Eric said bitterly, and what are we? Animals."
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"I have been holding a dialogue with myself and girding myself to stand fast without running."
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"There is no life higher than the grasstops"
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"Even amidst fierce flames the golden lotus can be planted."
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"Dancing is the normal prelude to intercourse."
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"I may never be happy, but tonight I am content."
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