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“But I am I now; and so many other millions are so irretrievably their own special variety of 'I' that I can hardly bear to think of it. I: how firm a letter; how reassuring the three strokes: one vertical, proud and assertive, and then the two short horizontal lines in quick, smug succession. The pen scratching on the paper I…I…I…I…I…I..”
— Sep 20, 2014 10:58AM
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Starting this yet again but this time to finish it by this year end.
— Jan 03, 2017 09:46AM
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Aloneness and selfness are too important to betray for company.
— Mar 27, 2015 04:09AM
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People specialize; people become devoted to an idea; people “find themselves”. But the very content that comes from finding yourself is overshadowed by the knowledge that by doing so you are admitting you are not only a grotesque, but a special kind of grotesque.
— Sep 24, 2014 10:59PM
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-Now I know what loneliness is, I think. Momentary loneliness, anyway. It comes from a vague core of the self--like a disease of the blood, dispersed throughout the body so that one cannot locate the matrix, the spot of contagion.
— Sep 18, 2014 03:59AM
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“Some things are hard to write about. After something happens to you, you go to write it down, and either you over dramatize it, or underplay it, exaggerate the wrong parts or ignore the important ones. At any rate, you never write it quite the way you want to.”
— Sep 13, 2014 05:56AM
