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Virginia Woolf
“Alone, I often fall down into nothingness. I must push my foot stealthily lest I should fall off the edge of the world into nothingness. I have to bang my head against some hard door to call myself back to the body.”
Virginia Woolf, The Waves

Dave Eggers
“Hand, nobody told me about the weight. Why didn't our parents tell us about the weight?

—What weight?

—The fucking weight, Hand. How does the woman Ingres live? The one from Marrakesh? If we're vessels, and we are, then we, you and I, are overfull, and that means she's at the bottom of a deep cold lake. How can she stand the hissing of all that water?

—We are not vessels; we are missiles.

—We're static and we're empty. We are overfull and leaden.

—We are airtight and we are missiles and all-powerful.”
Dave Eggers, You Shall Know Our Velocity!

William Faulkner
“Tell about the South. What's it like there. What do they do there. Why do they live there. Why do they live at all.”
William Faulkner, Absalom, Absalom!

William S. Burroughs
“There is only one thing a writer can write about: what is in front of his senses at the moment of writing... I am a recording instrument... I do not presume to impose “story” “plot” “continuity”... Insofar as I succeed in Direct recording of certain areas of psychic process I may have limited function... I am not an entertainer...”
William S. Burroughs, Naked Lunch: The Restored Text

Paul Tillich
“The courage to be is rooted in the God who appears when God has disappeared in the anxiety of doubt.”
Paul Tillich, The Courage to Be

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