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"I buried my head under the darkness of the pillow and pretended it was night. I couldn't see the point of getting up. I had nothing to look forward to."
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"I, I don't think anybody's continually happy, uh, except idiots, you know. You know, you have to have little moments of depression."
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"There isn't any doubt I'm stuck in stress and depression."
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"We all know pain doesn't exist without some coexisting depression."
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"The thought that I might kill myself formed in my mind coolly as a tree or a flower."
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"Not since the Depression has the state been this dry, have our rivers been this low, our water table this low, and our reservoirs this low."
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"I buried my head under the darkness of the pillow and pretended it was night. I couldn't see the point of getting up. I had nothing to look forward to."
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"When I was in Philadelphia during the Depression in 1930 or '31, I got a very sad job as a night watchman in a garage. The cars in the garage had been abandoned by their owners, since they had lost their jobs and couldn't keep up the payments."
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"I want to escape from myself. For when I do start up and stare myself seedily in the face, as happens to be my case at present, my blankness is inconceivable--indescribable--my misery amazing."
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"Well, I did know - but I just wanted the day to pass and the next day to come and then I wanted that one to pass. It was a horrible cycle. I felt so close to having to pack the game in."
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"Depression is close to me, but suicide hasn't been."
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"Widow. The word consumes itself."
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"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."
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"There must be quite a few things that a hot bath won't cure, but I don't know many of them."
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"I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead; I lift my eyes and all is born again."
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"I took a deep breath and listened to the old bray of my heart. I am. I am. I am."
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"The blood jet is poetry and there is no stopping it."
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"Nothing stinks like a pile of unpublished writing."
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"Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything, it is because we are dangerously close to wanting nothing."
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"Is there no way out of the mind?"
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"I talk to God but the sky is empty."
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