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At twenty I tried to die And g...

At twenty I tried to die And get back, back, back to you. I thought even the bones would do.

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Eternity bores me, I never wan...

Eternity bores me, I never wanted it.

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Can you understand? Someone, s...

Can you understand? Someone, somewhere, can you understand me a little, love me a little? For all my despair, for all my ideals, for all that - I love life. But it is hard, and I have so much - so very much to learn.

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I didn't know shorthand either...

I didn't know shorthand either. This meant I couldn't get a good job after college. My mother kept telling me nobody wanted a plain English major. But an English major who knew shorthand would be something else again. Everybody would want her. She would be in demand among all the up-and-coming young men and she would transcribe letter after thrilling letter. The trouble was, I hated the idea of serving men in any way. I wanted to dictate my own thrilling letters.

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Then I decided I would spend t...

Then I decided I would spend the summer writing a novel. That would fix a lot of people.

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Why honey, don't you want to g...

Why honey, don't you want to get dressed?' My mother took care never to tell me to do anything. She would only reason with me sweetly, like one intelligent, mature person with another. It's almost three in the afternoon.' I'm writing a novel,' I said. 'I haven't got time to change into this and change into that.

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I decided I would put off the ...

I decided I would put off the novel until I had gone to Europe and had a lover, and that I would never learn a word of shorthand. If I never learned shorthand I would never have to use it.

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At this rate, I'd be lucky if ...

At this rate, I'd be lucky if I wrote a page a day. Then I knew what the problem was. I needed experience. How could I write about life when I'd never had a love affair or a baby or even seen anybody die? A girl I knew had just won a prize for a short story about her adventures among the pygmies in Africa. How could I compete with that sort of thing?

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The only thing I could think o...

The only thing I could think of was turkey neck and turkey gizzards and I felt very depressed.

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I saw the days of the year str...

I saw the days of the year stretching ahead like a series of bright, white boxes, and separating one box from another was sleep, like a black shade. Only for me, the long perspective of shades that set off one box from the next day had suddenly snapped up, and I could see day after day after day glaring ahead of me like a white, broad, infinitely desolate avenue.

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I knew chemistry would be wors...

I knew chemistry would be worse, because I'd seen a big card of the ninety-odd elements hung up in the chemistry lab, and all the perfectly good words like gold and silver and cobalt and aluminum were shortened to ugly abbreviations with different decimal numbers after them.

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Is anyone anywhere happy?...

Is anyone anywhere happy?

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I have never found anybody who...

I have never found anybody who could stand to accept the daily demonstrative love I feel in me, and give back as good as I give.

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I have stitched life into me l...

I have stitched life into me like a rare organ

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I fancied you'd return the way...

I fancied you'd return the way you said,
But I grow old and I forget your name.
(I think I made you up inside my head.)

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Nothing stinks like a pile of ...

Nothing stinks like a pile of unpublished writing, which remark I guess shows I still don't have a pure motive (O it's-such-fun-I-just-can't-stop-who-cares-if-it's-published-or-read) about writing.

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If the body is a temple, then ...

If the body is a temple, then tattoos are its stained glass windows.

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If every soldier refused to ta...

If every soldier refused to take arms ... there would be no wars; but no one has the courage to be the first to live according to Christ and Socrates, because in a world of opportunists they would be martyred.

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I feel terribly vulnerable and...

I feel terribly vulnerable and 'not-myself' when I'm not writing ...

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Every day one has to earn the ...

Every day one has to earn the name of 'writer' over again, with much wrestling.

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