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"And when at last you find someone to whom you feel you can pour out your soul, you stop in shock at the words you utter- they are so rusty, so ugly, so meaningless and feeble from being kept in the small cramped dark inside you so long."
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"Widow. The word consumes itself."
Relationship
"And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt."
Creativity
"There must be quite a few things that a hot bath won't cure, but I don't know many of them."
Health
"I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead; I lift my eyes and all is born again."
Hope
"I took a deep breath and listened to the old bray of my heart. I am. I am. I am."
Life
"The blood jet is poetry and there is no stopping it."
Creativity
"Nothing stinks like a pile of unpublished writing."
Writing
"Is there no way out of the mind?"
Philosophy
"The one thing I was good at was winning scholarships and prizes, and that era was coming to an end."
Success
"The night sky is only a sort of carbon paper,Blueblack, with the much-poked periods of starsLetting in the light, peephole after peephole--- A bonewhite light, like death, behind all things."
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"I didn't want my picture taken because I was going to cry. I didn't know why I was going to cry, but I knew that if anybody spoke to me or looked at me too closely the tears would fly out of my eyes and the sobs would fly out of my throat and I'd cry for a week. I could feel the tears brimming and sloshing in me like water in a glass that is unsteady and too full."
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Personal Development
"I enabled your tendency to be vulnerable and weak, and your habits of crying when 6,000 others were present for the music."
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"Much more likely you'll hurt me. Still what does it matter? If I've got to suffer, it may as well be at your hands, your pretty hands."
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"I fear I have praised you too much too soon. Will I lose you in your shame of believing that you can never be what I think you are?"
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Personal Development
"But once in a while . . . I don't know. I feel so close, Rose. So close to the edge. Like if I allow myself one small misstep, I'll plunge away and never come back. It's like I'll lose myself."
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Personal Development
"I need more than anything right now what is, of course, most impossible, someone to love me, to be with me at night when I wake up in shuddering horror and fear of the cement tunnels leading down to the shock room, to comfort me with an assurance that no psychiatrist can quite manage to convey."
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Personal Development
"You disappoint me -I am the worst liar in the world - I can't hide my pain or my need so I make a bouquet of my sorrows and give them to you ..."
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Personal Development
"And when at last you find someone to whom you feel you can pour out your soul, you stop in shock at the words you utter- they are so rusty, so ugly, so meaningless and feeble from being kept in the small cramped dark inside you so long."
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Personal Development
"What is it?Nothing. I had a bad dream.What did you dream about?Nothing.Are you okay?No.He put his arms around him and held him. It's okay, he said.I was crying. But you didnt wake up.I'm sorry. I was just so tired.I meant in the dream."
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"I feel bare. I didn't realize I wore my secrets as armor until they were gone and now everyone sees me as I really am."
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