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"Being able to write becomes a kind of shield, a way of hiding, a way of too instantly transforming pain into honey."
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"Existence itself does not feel horrible; it feels like an ecstasy, rather, which we have only to be still to experience."
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"But it is just two lovers, holding hands and in a hurry to reach their car, their locked hands a starfish leaping through the dark."
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"Wickedness was like food: once you got started it was hard to stop, the gut expanded to take in more and more."
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