"You must write, and read, as if your life depended on it."
Adrienne Rich, What is Found There: Notebooks on Poetry and Politics (via awritersruminations)
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"If you asked me now who I am, the only answer I could give with any certainty would be my name. For the rest: my loves, my hates, down even to my deepest desires, I can no longer say whether these emotions are my own, or stolen from those I once so desperately wished to be."
Evelyn Waugh (via misswallflower)
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"Suspect each moment, for it is a thief, tiptoeing away with more than it brings."
John Updike, A Month of Sundays (via hateshiploveship)
US soldiers crossing a river in southern Vietnam, 1965.
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