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Like Being Killed QUOTES

Like Being Killed QUOTES

1 " He paid me to discover ways to express the unnameable; to get to the bottom of an utterance; to find words for the things for which there were no words yet, thereby bringing them into existence, committing them to paper, projecting them into the future. The work was part drudgery, part deity. "

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2 " Her smile was a supernova: blazing, beautiful, short-lived. "

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3 " I never saw her a burglar prying my windows open with a jimmy to steal whatever she found inside. "

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4 " For years I had been aware of an important deficiency in the English language: a word to describe something a person loses that was never really hers. "

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5 " I was too apathetic to be bored or anxious. Boredom and anxiety were the neurotic cousins of concern; they implied wishes. I had no wishes or wants. I didn't even want dope. I only needed it. "

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6 " Because there's no such thing as too much water under the bridge. The only problem is a refusal to deal with the water that's already gone pasts. "

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7 " Sometimes I became so permeable, so porous, that I would absorb too much, until a valve yielded, and everything rushed out in a quick drain. "

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8 " The light, like the sensation of togetherness, was manufactured, seeping in from external commerce. "

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9 " Gone is what happens when people stop asking, when all research has ceased, when no one contributes to the archives of a life or its extinction. "

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10 " Words were cannibals eating up their own past. "

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11 " Your generosity is cosmetic if you don't fully comprehend that the power to give is positively correlated with a concomitant power to deny, and both of these are the privileges of those who live in abundance, and I don't mean money. "

― , Like Being Killed