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101 " The tequila was light, like flower juice. I closed my eyes and saw a green train with an M in a circle; a faded green like the back of a praying mantis. "
― Patti Smith , M Train
102 " I followed whatever train I wanted. I wrote without writing—of genies and hustlers and mythic travelers, my vagabondia. Then I would walk back home, happily satisfied, and resume my daily tasks. "
103 " I loved my coat and the cafe and my morning routine. It was the clearest and simplest expression of my solitary identity. "
104 " Fred didn't swim either. He said Indians didn't swim. "
105 " It was unsettling to imagine it alone on the bench without a film, unable to record its own passage into the hands of a stranger. "
106 " Leaves as vowels, whispers of words like a breath of net. Leaves are vowels, I sweep them up hoping to find the combinations I am looking for. "
107 " Words tumble in helpless disorder. The dead speak. We have forgotten how to listen. "
108 " Toys to deftly pluck up like animal crackers and deposit safely into a crate decorated with friezes of bright circus trains carrying aardvarks, dodos, swift dromedaries, baby elephants, and plastic dinosaurs. A box of mixed metaphors. "
109 " a black granite cube containing only the character mu "
110 " We are wooed, then mocked, plagued like Amfortas, King of the Grail Knights, by a wound refusing heal. "
111 " Do not cast your boat on a river of tears, cried the tearing wind. Small hands are still, be still. She knelt then lay on her side, clutching a key, accepting kindness of endless sleep. "
112 " I closed my eyes as if to join the maiden as the droplets rearranged themselves, forming a pattern resembling an elongated island on the rim of an undisturbed blankness "
113 " Murakami is not here anyway, I thought. He is most likely somewhere else, sealed in a space capsule in the center of a field of lavender, laboring over words. "
114 " There were no ashtrays and no sign of my philosophic cowpoke. I sensed he had been heading this way and most likely, spotting the spanking new paint job, just kept on going. I looked around. Nothing to hold me here, either, not even the dried carcass of a dead bee. "
115 " I tried to write something about Jesse but couldn't, as her face echoed her father's and the proud palace where the ghosts of our old life dwell. "
116 " It occurred to me that I was on a run of suicides. Akutagawa. Dazai. Plath. Death by water, barbiturates, and carbon monoxide poisoning; three fingers of oblivion, outplaying everything. "
117 " the incisive observational powers of a female surgeon cutting out her own heart. "
118 " Its great thorns pierced the canvas, and its heavy fragrance rushed within, enveloping his sleep, becoming one with his breath, and penetrated the chambers of his exploding heart. "
119 " All doors are open to the believer. "
120 " The spirits rose like an ether that spun an arabesque and touched down as gently as a benevolent mask. "