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“I cannot do this anymore. I cannot pull myself together again and spend the next fifteen hours of wakefulness fending off the fact of my own misery.”
― What Was She Thinking?: Notes on a Scandal
― What Was She Thinking?: Notes on a Scandal
“Even if you are alone you wage war with yourself.”
― The Sun Watches the Sun
― The Sun Watches the Sun
“if you wanted to do something absolutely honest, something true, it always turned out to be a thing that had to be done alone.”
― Revolutionary Road
― Revolutionary Road
“And if you couldn't be loved, the next best thing was to be let alone.”
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“It's not all bad. Heightened self-consciousness, apartness, an inability to join in, physical shame and self-loathing—they are not all bad. Those devils have been my angels. Without them I would never have disappeared into language, literature, the mind, laughter and all the mad intensities that made and unmade me.”
― Moab Is My Washpot
― Moab Is My Washpot
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