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“That is the mystery about writing: it comes out of afflictions, out of the gouged times, when the heart is cut open.”
― Country Girl
― Country Girl
“Revenge, the sweetest morsel to the mouth that ever was cooked in hell.”
― The Heart of Mid-Lothian
― The Heart of Mid-Lothian
“There is something in me maybe someday
to be written; now it is folded, and folded,
and folded, like a note in school.”
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to be written; now it is folded, and folded,
and folded, like a note in school.”
―
“I will take the sun in my mouth
and leap into the ripe air
Alive
with closed eyes
to dash against darkness”
― Poems, 1923-1954
and leap into the ripe air
Alive
with closed eyes
to dash against darkness”
― Poems, 1923-1954
“It is best as one grows older to strip oneself of possessions, to shed oneself downward like a tree, to be almost wholly earth before one dies.”
― Lolly Willowes
― Lolly Willowes
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