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Raymond Carver

It ought to make us feel ashamed when we talk like we know what we’re talking about when we talk about love. ― Raymond Carver, “What We Talk About When We Talk About Love,” What We Talk About When We Talk About Love: Stories (Vintage; Reissue edition, June 18, 1989)

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Angela Carter

Eat me, drink me; thirsty, cankered, goblin-ridden, I go back and back to him to have his fingers strip the tattered skin away and clothe me in his dress of water, this garment that drenches me, its slithering odour, its capacity for drowning. ― Angela Carter, The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories (Vintage, January 1,… Continue reading Angela Carter

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 Flannery O’Connor

She could never be a saint, but she thought she could be a martyr if they killed her quick. — Flannery O’Connor, “A Temple of the Holy Ghost,” A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories (Mariner Books; Reissue edition, October 15, 1992) Originally published January 1, 1955.

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Chuck Palahniuk

That’s why I write, because life never works except in retrospect… You can’t control life, at least you can control your version. — Chuck Palahniuk, Stranger Than Fiction (Doubleday, 2004)

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Henry Rollins

You are beautiful like demolition. Just the thought of you draws my knuckles white. I don’t need a god. I have you and your beautiful mouth, your hands holding onto me, the nails leaving unfelt wounds, your hot breath on my neck. The taste of your saliva. The darkness is ours. The nights belong to… Continue reading Henry Rollins

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Robert Fulghum

We even make ourselves up, fusing what we are with what we wish into what we must become. I’m not sure why it must be so, but it is. – Robert Fulghum, All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten (Ballantine Books; Anniversary, Subsequent edition, September 30, 2003) Originally published September 1, 1988,

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W.B. Yeats

I have desired, like every artist, to create a little world out of the beautiful, pleasant, and significant things out of this marred and clumsy world… — W.B. Yeats, The Celtic Twilight: Faerie and Folklore (Wildside Press, 2005)

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