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Writing is turning life's worst moments into money.


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On Being Old. It's not nice but take comfort that you won't stay that way for ever.



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I'm starved for love. Not ordinary love but real love. The love that's like music or something.



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Dear Mr Skully, I have caught my neck in a mangle and will be indisposed for eternity. Yours in death S.D.



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Expect the worst and that's what you'll get only it will be much worse.



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I got disappointed in human nature as well and gave it up because I found it too much like my own.



The purpose of writing is to make your mother and father drop dead with shame.

The purpose of writing is to make your mother and father drop dead with shame.




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