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“I don't know what's going to come out of me. It has to be perfect. It has to be irreproachable in every way.'
'Why?'
'To make up for it. To make up for the fact that it's me.”
― Suzanne Rivecca, Ugly, Bitter, and True

“Even though I had a deep conviction that I was good at writing, and that in some way I already was a writer, this conviction was completely independent of my having ever written anything, or being able to imagine ever writing anything, that I thought anyone would like to read.”
― Elif Batuman, The Idiot

“I am Diogenes the Dog. I nuzzle the kind, bark at the greedy and bite scoundrels.”
― Diogenes of Sinope

“For every sensation Regan could conjure, there was an artist who had beautifully suffered the same.”
― Olivie Blake, Alone With You in the Ether