Gertrude’s remedy for her mood swings was to print up hundreds of black-bordered calling cards embossed with the single word “Woe, ” which she handed out gaily declaring, “Woe is me.
You're like a grey sky. You're beautiful, even though you don't want to be.
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Jasmine Warga
My mother, poor fish, wanting to be happy, beaten two or three times aweek, telling me to be happy: "Henry, smile! why don't you ever smile?"and then she would smile, to show me how, and it was thesaddest smile I ever saw
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Charles Bukowski
Depression is the flaw in love. To be creatures who love, we must be creatures who can despair at what we lose, and depression is the mechanism of that despair.
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Andrew Solomon
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Elizabeth Wurtzel
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Elizabeth Gilbert
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It might be said of Miss [Djuna] Barnes, ” [T.S. Eliot] wrote, “who is incontestably one of the most original writers of our time, that never has so much genius been combined with so little talent.
There is only one thing left for you to do, ” John Sloan advised one artist. “Pull off your socks and try with your feet.
[I]t was [Barnett] Newman who made the famously wry remark, “Aesthetics is for the artist as ornithology is for the birds,
As George Russell defined a literary movement: “Five or six men who live in the same town and hate each other.
Gertrude’s remedy for her mood swings was to print up hundreds of black-bordered calling cards embossed with the single word “Woe, ” which she handed out gaily declaring, “Woe is me.
