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“You can't argue with someone who believes, or just passionately suspects, that the poet's function is not to write what he must write but, rather, to write what he would write if his life depended on his taking responsibility for writing what he must in a style designed to shut out as few of his old librarians as humanly possible.”
― J.D. Salinger, Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters & Seymour: An Introduction

“Fate intervened. Some of us, that day, she led inexorably through the gates of death. Some of us, innocent and unsuspecting, took, unwillingly, that one last step to oblivion. Some of us took very little sugar.”
― Shirley Jackson, We Have Always Lived in the Castle

“I don't think writers are any smarter than other people. I think they may be more compelling in their stupidity, or in their confusion.”
― David Foster Wallace

“I reserve the right to love many different people at once, and to change my prince often.”
― Anaïs Nin