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“We are all dying one by one. We all smell of mortality, and we can't wash it off.”
― The Summer Without Men
― The Summer Without Men
“The unloved watch the loved perform the small rituals of their loving.”
― The Unloved
― The Unloved
“I think it's an essential fact for any performer or artist to fail as poignantly as they can succeed.”
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“You've got to understand your limitations. It's your limitations that make you the wonderful disaster you most probably are.”
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“Who knows their own story? Certainly it makes no sense when we are living in the midst of it. It's all just clamor and confusion. It only becomes a story when we tell it and retell it. Our small precious recollections that we speak again and again to ourselves and to others, first creating the narrative of our lives and then keeping the story from dissolving into darkness.”
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