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All I had to do was open my eyes and start noticing the wonder of the world outside my front door.
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“Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing.”
― The Job: Interviews with William S. Burroughs
― The Job: Interviews with William S. Burroughs
“They say the city gets in your blood, but that's crap. The city doesn't become part of you... you become part of it. It soaks you up bit by bit, year after year. Until you're just a tiny part of its system... Pumping through its veins, lost in its arteries.”
― Essex County, Vol. 2: Ghost Stories
― Essex County, Vol. 2: Ghost Stories
“I stood still, vision blurring, and in that moment, I heard my heart break. It was a small, clean sound, like the snapping of a flower's stem.”
― Dragonfly in Amber
― Dragonfly in Amber
“I lie to myself all the time. But I never believe me.”
― The Outsiders
― The Outsiders
“And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.”
― The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
― The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
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