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"At last, she thought, this is the real thing--this gradual unfolding of another soul, charting one's course into privileged inner territory, making discoveries of which you felt you were the first."

"More often she felt bereft; unsatisfied and unsatisfying, trapped in a body that needed."

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"There was the question of whether all this was character building asceticism or simply the demands of poverty, since none of the graduate students made close to a loving wage. But nobody liked to talk about that."

"I feel sometimes it is so difficult to be conscious ... And I think anything would be easier. Anything at all."

"Now, like in the case of heaven, no one in Alice's generation had yet experienced this Miraculous Life of the Mind, but all their professors assured them it was possible and so they plodded along."

"Alice could tip over her world and construct planks of belief from nothing."

"Joan opens and closes her own hands, trying to make space in the bones."

"Academia respected discipline, rewarded effort, but even more, it adored genius that didn't have to try."

"I wasn't napping just now. I was contemplating the feeling of solitude."

"Don't look like that--like the whole world blames you."

"Cats are too cutesy. That's for sure."

"To tickle Frances' chin--and hear that laugh--was to need it forever."

"'A highly effective cat,' my foot."

"Everyone's doing their best. It's not like I can't do my best, too."

"How could we explain that standing on a stage and speaking someone else's words as if they are your own is less an act of bravery than a desperate lunge at mutual understanding?"

"James, Richard, me. Gunpowder, fire, fuse."

"Something changed irrevocably, in those few dark minutes James was submerged, as if the lack of oxygen had caused all our molecules to rearrange."

"Actors are by nature volatile--alchemic creatures composed of incendiary elements, emotion and ego and envy."

"A good year was all I wanted."

"'We can't keep rescuing each other,' I say. 'Its ridiculous.'"

"We were drenched, we were numbed, we were blinded, we were deafened, but always we were saved."

"Safe in his embrace, I wept for my lost sanity."

"I almost forgot to breathe. For a moment I had an inkling of what it might be like if instead of two people in the World there were thousands."

"You sleep. I watch."

"But I have to save humanity first. Stupid humanity. Getting in the way of my hobbies."

Solitary confinement is a whole different set of psychological damage. I should read up on it.

Hey, I'm going to fall unconscious and hallucinate for a while. By the way, I spend a third of my life doing this. And if I can't do it for a while, I go insane and eventually die. No need for concern.

Hey, I'm going to fall unconscious and hallucinate for a while. By the way, I spend a third of my time doing this. And if I can't do it for a while, I go insane and eventually die. No need for concern.

I don't know what else to do. There's no interplanetary symbol for supplication.

Where do I begin? Everywhere!