"Go, then! Go to the moon-you selfish dreamer!"
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"Time rushes towards us with its hospital tray of infinitely varied narcotics, even while it is preparing us for its inevitably fatal operation."
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"Security is a kind of death."
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"I know so well what becomes of unmarried women who aren't prepared to occupy a position. I've seen such pitiful cases in the South barely tolerated spinsters living upon the grudging patronage of sister's husband or brother's wife! stuck away in some little mouse-trap of a room encouraged by one in-law to visit another little birdlike women without any nest eating the crust of humility all their life! Is that the future that we've mapped out for ourselves?"
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"Animals have sections in their stomachs which enable them to digest food without mastication, but human beings are supposed to chew their food before they swallow it down... So chew your food and give your salivary glands a chance to function!"
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"The helpless can't help the helpless."
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"We've had this date with each other from the beginning."
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"When I stop working the rest of the day is posthumous. I'm only really alive when I'm writing."
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"There is no pleasure in the world like writing well and going fast."
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"A vacuum is a hell of a lot better than some of the stuff that nature replaces it with."
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"The human animal is a beast that dies but the fact that he’s dying don’t give him pity for others."
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"For nowadays the world is lit by lightning! Blow out your candles, Laura -- and so goodbye. . . ."
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"I don't believe anyone ever suspects how completely unsure I am of my work and myself and what tortures of self-doubting the doubt of others has always given me."
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"You know, then that the public Somebody you are when you 'have a name' is a fiction created with mirrors and that the only somebody worth being is the solitary and unseen you that existed from your first breath"
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"He was a boy, just a boy, when I was a very young girl. When I was sixteen, I made the discovery - love. All at once and much, much too completely. It was like you suddenly turned a blinding on something that had always been half in shadow, that's how it struck the world for me. But I was unlucky. Deluded."
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"My greatest affliction... is perhaps the major theme of my writings, the affliction of loneliness that follows me like a shadow, a very ponderous shadow too heavy to drag after me all of my days and nights."
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"I cannot write any sort of story unless there is at least one character in it for whom I have physical desire."
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"Girls that aren't cut out for business careers usually wind up married to some nice man."
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"All creative work, all life in a sense, is a cri de coeur."
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"Nobody sees anybody truly, but all through the flaws of their own ego."
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