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Being clever was, after all, my primary source of self-esteem. I’m a very sad person, in all senses of the word, but at least I was going to get into university.
“A word after a word after a word is power.”
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“She turns and looks a moment in the glass,
Hardly aware of her departed lover;
Her brain allows one half-formed thought to pass:
“Well now that’s done: and I’m glad it’s over”.
When lovely woman stoops to folly and
Paces about her room again, alone,
She smoothes her hair with automatic hand,
And puts a record on the gramophone”
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Hardly aware of her departed lover;
Her brain allows one half-formed thought to pass:
“Well now that’s done: and I’m glad it’s over”.
When lovely woman stoops to folly and
Paces about her room again, alone,
She smoothes her hair with automatic hand,
And puts a record on the gramophone”
―
“A writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.”
― Essays of Three Decades
― Essays of Three Decades
“All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know.”
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“One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple.”
― The Dharma Bums
― The Dharma Bums
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