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Perhaps twenty minutes later he realized she had gone to sleep. He quietly removed his now stiff arm, then turned away. It must have woken her a littl...more

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Wolves don't hunt singly, but always in pairs. The lone wolf was a myth.

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She's always looking for poetry and passion and sensitivity, the whole Romantic kitchen. I live on a rather simpler diet.' 'Prose and pudding?''I don'...more

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To write poetry and to commit suicide, apparently so contradictory, had really been the same, attempts at escape.

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But he was absolutely alone. No one ever wrote to him. Visited him. Totally alone. And I believe the happiest man I have ever met.

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Poetry had always seemed something I could turn to in need - an emergency exit, a lifebuoy, as well as a justification.

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I suppose I'd had, by the standards of that pre-permissive time, a good deal of sex for my age. Girls, or a certain kind of girl, liked me; I had a ca...more

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...there are times when silence is a poem.

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To write poetry and to commit suicide, apparently so contradictory, had really been the same, attempts at escape. And my feelings, at the end of that ...more