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“My advice to all young writers is quite simple. I would caution them never to evade a new experience. I would urge them to live life in the raw, to grapple with it bravely, to attack it with naked fists.”
― Ask the Dust
― Ask the Dust
“I’m doing badly, I’m doing well, whichever you prefer.”
― Letters to Milena
― Letters to Milena
“Lost among these entirely strange people.”
― Diaries, 1910-1923
― Diaries, 1910-1923
“You feel that if only you could make yourself sit down at a typewriter you could give shape to what seems merely a chain reaction of pointless disasters.”
― Bright Lights, Big City
― Bright Lights, Big City
“But that was before I saw her coming down those stairs reincarnated as a goddess. A goddess in mourning. Those emblems of bereavement kept alive the pity, the religious adoration, the sense that my beloved was a spirit who must be worshiped in spirit. But out of the black bodice rose the luminous column of the neck; between the coils of honey-colored hair the face was transfigured by a kind of unearthly radiance.”
― The Genius and the Goddess
― The Genius and the Goddess
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