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“She read my books the way a young cannibal might eat the hearts of brave old enemies. Their magic would become hers.”
― Jailbird
― Jailbird
“I don't do anything with my life except romanticize and decay with indecision.”
― The Book of Martyrdom and Artifice: First Journals and Poems, 1937-1952
― The Book of Martyrdom and Artifice: First Journals and Poems, 1937-1952
“It is a hard daydream to let go of—that one has friends.”
― Jailbird
― Jailbird
“in a world
full of
temporary things
you are
a perpetual
feeling.”
―
full of
temporary things
you are
a perpetual
feeling.”
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“We are here for no purpose, unless we can invent one. Of that I am sure. The human condition in an exploding universe would not have been altered one iota if, rather than live as I have, I had done nothing but carry a rubber ice-cream cone from closet to closet for sixty years.”
― Jailbird
― Jailbird
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