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1. black
2. grey
3. blue
4. red
5. brown
6. white

Oh, Ma, you’re looking at all the trees, and I’m not even in the forest.

Elizabeth Wurtzel

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  homesickness is just a state of mind for me. i’m always missing someone or someplace or something, i’m always trying to get back to some imaginary somewhere. my life has been one long longing.

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  But just as a little bit of knowledge is a dangerous thing, a little bit of energy, in the hands of someone hell-bent on suicide, is a very dangerous thing.

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  It was just very interesting to me that certain types of women inspire people’s imagination, and all of them were very difficult women.

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  The measure of mindfulness, the touchstone for sanity in this society, is our level of productivity, our attention to responsibility, our ability to plain and simple hold down a job.

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  In the meantime, I could withdraw to my room, could hide and sleep as if I were dead

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  I come from a family of screamers. If they are trying to express any emotion or idea beyond pass the salt, it comes in shrieks.

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  I start to get the feeling that something is really wrong.

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  I sit there in my bed staring at the wall, feeling happy, enjoying the way the wall looks, how pink and how white it is. Pink and white, as far as I’m concerned, have never looked quite so pink and white before.

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  It didn’t and doesn’t turn out well. There is no happy ending to the story of sorrow if you are born with a predilection for despair. The world is, after all, a coarse and brutal and cruel place. It’s only a matter of how long you can live with it.

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  Into every sunny life a little rain must fall.

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  And I want out of this life on drugs.

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  And she keeps saying, how can you do this to me? And i want to scream, what do you mean, how can I do this to you? Aren’t we confusing our pronouns here? The question, really, is How could I do this to myself?

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  That is all I want in life: for this pain to seem purposeful.

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  Am I worried people will say I’m repeating myself? Sure. One thought I had was to publish it as a novel but eventually I just decided to do what I wanted to do.

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  My life’s actually been quite dull; it’s not all that glamorous.

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