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Life is a risk; so is writing. You have to love it.
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I thought what father said. Oh god he said. And only eight.
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All of us have a path to follow and the path begins on earth.
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When you sleep, your dream world is as real to you as life, isn't it?
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The vampire was real. It was only that his true story had never been told.
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Really now, search your soul, lovie-is the vampire so bad? All he does is drink blood.
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Normalcy was a majority concept, the standard of many and not the standard of just one man.
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It is a secret but I have pulled the chain out of the wall. I can see out the little window all I like.
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What condemnation could possibly be more harsh than one's own, when self-pretense is no longer possible?
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No longer will you be a weird Robinson Crusoe, imprisoned on an island of night surrounded by oceans of death.
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After a while, though, even the deepest sorrow faltered, even the most penetrating despair lost its scalpel edge.
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Thank you... for gracing my life with your lovely presence, for adding the sweet measure of your soul to my existence.
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Because there was only one thing worse than dying. And that was knowing you were going to die. And where. And how. ( Death Ship )
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X — This day when it had light mother called me a retch. You retch she said. I saw in her eyes the anger. I wonder what it is a retch.
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Failures plagued me. Things I had omitted or ignored, neglected. What I should have given and hadn't. I felt the biting pang of every unfulfillment.
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That's what was wrong with drinking too much. You became immune to drunken delights. There was no solace in liquor. Before you got happy, you collapsed.
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As her analyst had told her: the deeper buried the distress, the further into the body it went. The digestive system was about as far as it could go to hide.
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It is my conviction that basic Reality is not all that perplexing. What seems difficult to assimilate are the manifold details of Reality, not its fundamental elements.
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I hate it when something I've had published "inspires" some nut to imitate what I've written, or some teacher gets fired for having her students read one of my stories or novels.
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I'm sitting in my office trying to squeeze a story from my head. It is that kind of morning when you feel like melting the typewriter into a bar of steel and clubbing yourself to death with it.
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The world's gone mad, he thought. The dead walk about and I think nothing of it.
The return of corpses has become trivial in import. How quickly one accepts the incredible if only one sees it.
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In a world of monotonous horror there could be no salvation in wild dreaming. Horror he had adjusted to. But monotony was the greater obstacle, and he realized it now, understood it at long last.
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This day father hit in the chain again before it had light. I have to try to pull it out again. He said I was bad to come upstairs. He said never do that again or he would beat me hard. That hurts.
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If men only felt about death as they do about sleep, all terrors would cease.... Men sleep contentedly, assured that they will wake the following morning. They should feel the same about their lives.
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Men were only made into "men" with great difficulty even in primitive society: the male is not naturally "a man" any more than the woman. He has to be propped up into that position with some ingenuity, and is always likely to collapse.
Wyndham Lewis
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Born:
February 20, 1926
Died:
June 23, 2013
(aged 87)
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