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I was being pursued, and I was trying to run away. But from whom? I was going to say that I was fleeing from life itself.
People are nothing more than the accumulated stories of others.
I’m here for only one reason, and that is to die before death comes to get me.
In a way, she rose up in revolt against life
You have to admit that to a certain extent, happiness is related to whether or not you have any money.
The world is made up of stories. If it wasn’t, life would be insufferable.
Sometimes kindness can bring about more harm than the most malevolent acts.
The road to hell is paved with good deeds and names.”
Laughter is the wind of the mind and soul—it picks you up and whisks you far away.
Laughter signals that the place where you are now is no longer a good place to be.
That’s easy. So they’ll have a story to tell. Some of us die before the story ends, some of us die long after the story has ended, and some of us die right at the very start.
“Speak for your own self, not for anyone else,
Streets, like life, are full of injustice.
There is nothing more humiliating, degrading, and dehumanizing than trying, without success, to find work.
What the characters really do is give voice to our emotions, to the things that have had a profound impact on us.
Writing is like looking in a mirror, but the face we see there isn’t our own.
