What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn't happen much, though.
— J.D. Salinger.
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Rose Flint, ed. by Kate Rogers and Viki Holmes, from Not a Muse: The Inner Lives of Women: A World Poetry Anthology; "Black Wind"
[Text ID: “These are the nights when everything cages me: / your gentleness, our love, the spaces between us”]
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Sylvia Plath, from a journal entry featured in "The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath,"
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L.M. Montgomery, Kilmeny of the Orchard
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my tears ricochet - taylor swift
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"Absolutely no one comes to save us but us."
Ismatu Gwendolyn, "you've been traumatized into hating reading (and it makes you easier to oppress)", from Threadings, on Substack [ID'd]
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{Quotes:Nitya prakash/Richard siken ,crush}
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rachel corrie’s letters
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Louise Glück, from "Persephone the Wanderer", Averno
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Read, read, read. Read everything -- trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You'll absorb it. Then write. If it's good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out of the window.
— William Faulkner.
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Nicole Homer, ed. by Kate Rogers and Viki Holmes, from Not a Muse: The Inner Lives of Women: A World Poetry Anthology; "Wait"
[Text ID: “Quiet, girl. / Sit in your room, / pretend that / that his hands are not familiar with you,”]
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Franz Kafka, from a letter featured in "Kafka: The Tremendous World I Have Inside my Head,"
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Virginia Woolf, from a diary entry written c. February 1934
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