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Delmore Schwartz
“[To James Laughlin] It was pleasant to learn that you expected our correspondence to be read in the international salons and boudoirs of the future. Do you think they will be able to distinguish between the obfuscations, mystification, efforts at humor, and plain statement of fact? Will they recognize my primary feelings as a correspondent—the catacomb from which I write to you, seeking to secure some word from the real world, or at least news of the Far West—and sigh with compassion? Or will they just think I am nasty, an over-eager clown, gauche, awkward and bookish? Will they understand that I am always direct, open, friendly, simple and candid to the point of naïveté until the ways of the fiendish world infuriate me and I am poked to be devious, suspicious, calculating, not that it does me any good anyway? And for that matter, what will they make of your complex character?”
Delmore Schwartz

“One of the great moments of your life will be the first time you are able to maintain control of your own actions and responses when a difficult person is on the rampage. You can do it if you back off! Refuse to argue. Set your limits. Stand as an equal who has the upper hand. You can care about and feel pity for this person whose ugly behaviors cause such chaos, but you don’t have to let her control you.”
Elizabeth B. Brown, Living Successfully with Screwed-Up People

Alexandra Elle
“Mistakes are water. Grow your lessons from them.”
Alexandra Elle, Neon Soul: A Collection of Poetry and Prose

Anna Akhmatova
“Each of our lives is a Shakespearean drama raised to the thousandth degree.”
Anna Akhmatova

John Hawkes
“Motive is never easy. Sometimes it occurs to one only later.”
John Hawkes

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