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“The world was out there still, but I hadn’t looked at it in months. It was too much to consider in all, stretching out, a circular planet covered in creatures and things growing, all of it spinning slowly on an axis created by what — some freak accident? It seemed implausible.”
― My Year of Rest and Relaxation
― My Year of Rest and Relaxation
“in my frenzied state of despair, I understood: there was stability in living in the past.”
― My Year of Rest and Relaxation
― My Year of Rest and Relaxation
“Mirth,” Dr. Tuttle said. “I like it better than joy. Happiness isn’t a word I like to use in here. It’s very arresting, happiness.”
― My Year of Rest and Relaxation
― My Year of Rest and Relaxation
“If you must suffer, suffer nobly. Love, laugh through your tears, or cry, create and perhaps, perish.”
― The Book of Martyrdom and Artifice: First Journals and Poems, 1937-1952
― The Book of Martyrdom and Artifice: First Journals and Poems, 1937-1952
“In many ways, writing is the act of saying I, of imposing oneself upon other people, of saying listen to me, see it my way, change your mind. It’s an aggressive, even a hostile act. You can disguise its aggressiveness all you want with veils of subordinate clauses and qualifiers and tentative subjunctives, with ellipses and evasions—with the whole manner of intimating rather than claiming, of alluding rather than stating—but there’s no getting around the fact that setting words on paper is the tactic of a secret bully, an invasion, an imposition of the writer’s sensibility on the reader’s most private space.”
― Let Me Tell You What I Mean: An Essay Collection
― Let Me Tell You What I Mean: An Essay Collection
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