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“I said I was impressed, Martha. I'm beside myself with jealousy. What do you want me to do, throw up?”
― Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
― Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
“let's get stinko.”
― Mildred Pierce
― Mildred Pierce
“Every day we slaughter our finest impulses. That is why we get a heartache when we read those lines written by the hand of a master and recognize them as our own, as the tender shoots which we stifled because we lacked the faith to believe in our own powers, our own criterion of truth and beauty. Every man, when he gets quiet, when he becomes desperately honest with himself, is capable of uttering profound truths. We all derive from the same source. there is no mystery about the origin of things. We are all part of creation, all kings, all poets, all musicians; we have only to open up, only to discover what is already there.”
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“i will wade out
till my thighs are steeped in burning flowers
I will take the sun in my mouth
and leap into the ripe air
Alive
with closed eyes
to dash against darkness
in the sleeping curves of my body”
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till my thighs are steeped in burning flowers
I will take the sun in my mouth
and leap into the ripe air
Alive
with closed eyes
to dash against darkness
in the sleeping curves of my body”
―
“A prayer for the wild at heart kept in cages.”
― Stairs to the Roof
― Stairs to the Roof
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