"I moved in front of the medicine cabinet. If I looked in the mirror while I did it, it would be like watching somebody else, in a book or a play."

Identity, Self, Reflection, Perception, Life

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"I moved in front of the medicine cabinet. If I looked in the mirror while I did it, it would be like watching somebody else, in a book or a play."

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"Most everything you think you know about me is nothing more than memories."

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"Maybe I'd always been broken and dark inside. Maybe someone who've been born whole and good would have put down the ash dagger and embraced death rather than what lay before me."

Sarah J. Maas, American Novelist

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bell hooks, American Critic

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"Each of us has no peers, because each of us is unique in who we are and what we have experienced.Anyone who tells you otherwise has quite obviously not met any of their peers either!"

Anthony T. Hincks, British Writer

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"She can't help it,' he said. 'She's got the soul of a poet and the emotional makeup of a junkyard dog."

Stephen King, American Author

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"I'm not a writer who teaches. I'm a teacher who writes."

Maya Angelou, American Poet

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Maya Angelou, American Poet

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"It's all right for a woman to be, above all, human. I am a woman first of all."

Anais Nin, American Author

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"Before that no one thought of us as colored-foreign maybe, exotic and dark, but not colored."

Neil Gaiman, British Author

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"Nothing stinks like a pile of unpublished writing."

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"Brave love, dreamnot of staunching such strict flame, but come,lean to my wound; burn on, burn on."

Love

"I lean to you, numb as a fossil. Tell me I'm here."

Emotion

"This boy - his name was Eric - said he thought it disgusting the way all the girls at my college stood around on the porches under the porch lights and in the bushes in plain view, necking madly before the one o'clock curfew, so everybody passing by could see them. A million years of evolution, Eric said bitterly, and what are we? Animals."

Society

"Feel oddly barren. My sickness is when words draw in their horns and the physical world refuses to be ordered, recreated, arranged and selected. I am a victim of it then, not a master."

Expression

"I wanted to crawl in between those black lines of print, the way you crawl through a fence, and go to sleep under that beautiful big green fig-tree."

Imagination

"I had been alone more than I could have been had I gone by myself."

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"The main point of the article was that a man's world is different from a women's world and a man's emotions are different from a women's emotions and only marriage can bring the two worlds and the two different sets of emotions together properly."

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"If they substituted the word 'Lust' for 'Love' in the popular songs it would come nearer the truth."

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"The moon is no door. It is a face in its own right,White as a knuckle and terribly upset.It drags the sea after it like a dark crime; it is quietWith the O-gape of complete despair. I live here."

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