She smiled at him as they waited for their dessert, her chin poised on her clasped hands.'You're being very silent.''That's how men cry.
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Thus it had come about that she had read far more fiction, and far more poetry, those two sanctuaries of the lonely, than most of her kind.
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She's always looking for poetry and passion and sensitivity, the whole Romantic kitchen. I live on a rather simpler diet.' 'Prose and pudding?''I don'...
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If anything might hurt her, silence would; and I wanted to hurt her.
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To write poetry and to commit suicide, apparently so contradictory, had really been the same, attempts at escape.
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Poetry had always seemed something I could turn to in need - an emergency exit, a lifebuoy, as well as a justification.
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To write poetry and to commit suicide, apparently so contradictory, had really been the same, attempts at escape. And my feelings, at the end of that ...
