“Let It Stand. Let The Whole Damned Thing Stand, For Better Or Worse. Don’t Go Back And Rewrite,

“I considered suicide, but I felt a strange fondness for my body, my life. Scarred as they were, they were mine.” - Charles Bukowski

I do not believe that things will turn out well; but the idea that they might — that is of vital importance.

— Theodor Adorno

“I think the reason pawns can’t move backwards is because if they could, they’d kill their own kings in a heartbeat.”

— Guante, “The Family Business”

“I think my life is of great importance, but I also think it is meaningless.”

— Albert Camus, The Plague (via the-book-diaries)

“First we feel. Then we fall.” - James Joyce, Finnegans Wake

“Angels are bright still, though the brightest fell. But tell me, tell me, how do you know he lost any of his brightness in the falling?” - D.H. Lawrence, Lucifer

“I am not well; I could have built the Pyramids with the effort it takes me to cling on to life and reason.”

— Franz Kafka, Letters To Felice (via the-book-diaries)

My father had taught me to be nice first, because you can always be mean later, but once you’ve been mean to someone, they won’t believe the nice anymore. So be nice, be nice, until it’s time to stop being nice, then destroy them.

Laurell K. Hamilton, A Stroke of Midnight (via the-book-diaries)

March 29, 1966 Anne Sexton: A Self-Portrait in Letters First published: 1977

“Memory takes a lot of poetic license. It omits some details; others are exaggerated, according to the emotional value of the articles it touches, for memory is seated predominantly in the heart. The interior is therefore rather dim and poetic”

— Tennessee Williams, The Glass Menagerie (via the-book-diaries)