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“Did I come into this world thru the womb of my mother the earth just so I could talk and write like everybody else?”
― Vanity of Duluoz: An Adventurous Education, 1935-46
― Vanity of Duluoz: An Adventurous Education, 1935-46
“Young people want mirrors. Older people want art.”
― Burnt Tongues
― Burnt Tongues
“Woke up this morning with
a terrific urge to lie in bed all day
and read. Fought against it for a minute.
Then looked out the window at the rain.
And gave over. Put myself entirely
in the keep of this rainy morning.
Would I live my life over again?
Make the same unforgivable mistakes?
Yes, given half a chance. Yes.
- Rain”
― All of Us: The Collected Poems
a terrific urge to lie in bed all day
and read. Fought against it for a minute.
Then looked out the window at the rain.
And gave over. Put myself entirely
in the keep of this rainy morning.
Would I live my life over again?
Make the same unforgivable mistakes?
Yes, given half a chance. Yes.
- Rain”
― All of Us: The Collected Poems
“My schedule for today lists a six-hour self-accusatory depression,”
― Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
― Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
“How many flutterings before they rest quietly in their graves! They that soared so loftily, how contentedly they return to dust again, and are laid low, resigned to lie and decay at the foot of the tree, and afford nourishment to new generations of their kind, as well as to flutter on high! They teach us how to die. One wonders if the time will ever come when men, with their boasted faith in immortality, will lie down as gracefully and as ripe,--with such an Indian-summer serenity will shed their bodies, as they do their hair and nails.”
― Autumnal Tints
― Autumnal Tints
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