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"Why did I write it down? In order to remember, of course, but exactly what was it i wanted to remember? How much of it actually happened? Did any of it? (...) It's easy to decieve oneself on all these scores. The impulse to write things down is a peculiarly compulsive one, inexplicable to those who do not share it, useful only accidentally, only secondarily, in the way that any compulsion tries to justify itself."
— Oct 21, 2025 11:22PM
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"Keepers of private notebooks are a different breed altogether, lonely and resistant rearrangers of things, anxious malcontents, children afflicted apparently at birth with some presentiment of loss."
— Oct 21, 2025 11:23PM
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"There've been times I felt like packing up and taking off for the East Coast again, at least there I had a target. At least there you expect
that it's going to happen." He lights a cigarette for me and his hands shake. "Here you know it's not going to."
I ask what it is that is supposed to happen.
"I don't know," he says, "Something. Anything."'
— Oct 01, 2025 09:54AM
that it's going to happen." He lights a cigarette for me and his hands shake. "Here you know it's not going to."
I ask what it is that is supposed to happen.
"I don't know," he says, "Something. Anything."'
nicole
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"Steve is troubled by a lot of things. He is twenty-three, was raised in Virginia, and has the idea that California is the beginning of the end."
— Oct 01, 2025 09:53AM
