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“Sleep mothered them; and left the twilight sad.”
― The War Poems
― The War Poems
“We can only re-tell stories; we attempt, in doing so, to tell new stories. Is there a way out of this bind? I think the trick is to enter into it completely. Avoid purity. The idea of perfection sounds awfully boring.”
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“Perhaps I am no one.
True, I have a body
and I cannot escape from it.
I would like to fly out of my head,
but that is out of the question.”
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True, I have a body
and I cannot escape from it.
I would like to fly out of my head,
but that is out of the question.”
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“A book should be an axe to chop open the frozen sea inside us.”
― Summertime
― Summertime
“People give you a hard time about being a kid at twelve. They didn't want to give you Halloween candy anymore. They said things like, "If this were the Middle Ages, you'd be married and you'd own a farm with about a million chickens on it." They were trying to kick you out of childhood. Once you were gone, there was no going back, so you had to hold on as long as you could.”
― Lullabies for Little Criminals
― Lullabies for Little Criminals
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