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But in Ward 9 the air had a real quality, it clamped itself over your face like a pad of cotton wool...

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Will SelfThe Quantity Theory of Insanity

She had loved him for such a long time, she thought. How was it that she did now know him at all?

from the beginning, through themiddle years and up to theend:too bad, too bad, too bad.

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Charles BukowskiSifting Through the Madness for the Word

All alone! Whether you like it or not, alone is something you'll be quite a lot!

It's more real to me here than if I went up," he suddenly heard himself say; and the fear lest that ...

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Posterity will never hear of you. You will be lifted clean out from the stream of history. We shall ...

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There is too much fathering going on just now and there is no doubt about it fathers are depressing.

No breed of cats in its proper condition can by any stretch of the imagination be thought of as even...

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To the scientist there is the joy in pursuing truth which nearly counteracts the depressing revelati...

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That's depressing, when somebody says "please" to you.

No - no - no!" someone was shouting. "No! Fred! No!"And Percy was shaking his brother, and Ron was k...

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J. K. RowlingHarry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

And then something invisible snapped insider her, and that which had come together commenced to fall...

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Y'all smoke to enjoy it. I smoke to die.

Where is my chance to be somebody's Peter Van Houten?' He hit the steering wheel weakly, the car hon...

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I remember staying to look at it for a long time, as one would linger within reach of a consoling wh...

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Or because they hope these walls of books will deaden the drumming of the demon in their ears

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Louis MacNeicePoetry of the Thirties

Each night, when I go to sleep, I die. And the next morning, when I wake up, I am reborn.This means ...

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Although sex was something they both regarded as perilous, marriage had, by contrast, seemed safe– a...

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Better my right hand should have been cut off. Go know I was setting in motion events that would lea...

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It seems to me that our lives are consumed by countless wasting years, but only a few shining moment...

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I carry the seeds of death within me and plant them wherever I linger long enough to love.

I don't like novels that end happily. They depress me so much.

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Oscar WildeThe Importance of Being Earnest