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When I say I must write, I don't mean I must publish. There is a great difference. the important thing is the chaotic form given to my chaotic experie...more

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Usually after a good puke you feel better right away. We hugged each other and then said good-bye and went off to opposite ends of the hall to lie dow...more

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I felt Mr Willard had deserted me. I thought he must have planned it all along, but Buddy said No, his father simply couldn't stand the sight of sickn...more

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She looked terrible, but very wise.

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It was comforting to know I had fallen and could fall no farther.

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How can I tell Bob that my happiness streams from having wrenched a piece out of my life, a piece of hurt and beauty, and transformed it to typewritte...more

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Writing, then, was a substitute for myself: if you don't love me, love my writing & love me for my writing. It is also much more: a way of ordering an...more

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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 crea...more

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I want to write because I have the urge to excel in one medium of translation and expression of life. I can't be satisfied with the colossal job of me...more

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Some things are hard to write about. After something happens to you, you go to write it down, and either you over dramatize it, or underplay it, exagg...more

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So much working, reading, thinking, living to do! A lifetime is not long enough.

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let me live, love, and say it well in good sentences

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Living with him is like being told a perpetual story: his mind is the biggest, most imaginative I have ever met. I could live in its growing countries...more