Valeka
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“What have I become?
My sweetest friend;
everyone I know goes away in the end.
And you could have it all:
my empire of dirt.
I will let you down.
I will make you hurt.”
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My sweetest friend;
everyone I know goes away in the end.
And you could have it all:
my empire of dirt.
I will let you down.
I will make you hurt.”
―
“But it's just because the chances are all against you, just because there is so little hope, that life is sweet over here.”
― Tropic of Cancer
― Tropic of Cancer
“I don't think of all the misery, but of the beauty that still remains.”
― The Diary of a Young Girl
― The Diary of a Young Girl
“Words are loneliness.”
― Tropic of Cancer
― Tropic of Cancer
“You see, in my view a writer is a writer not because she writes well and easily, because she has amazing talent, because everything she does is golden. In my view a writer is a writer because even when there is no hope, even when nothing you do shows any sign of promise, you keep writing anyway."
[Becoming a Writer/ The List, O Magazine, November 2009]”
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[Becoming a Writer/ The List, O Magazine, November 2009]”
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