Quotes From "Give Sorrow Words: Maryse Holders Letters From Mexico" By Maryse Holder

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All I want is some man to take delight in me. 5:30? 6:30 A.M. as usual, no cigs. Better a maudlin drunk than a sterile one. My pimples are more like small boils; I have the plague. My lip is split. My tits are swollen and I can't ever sleep. I now breathe with my heart, which skips rope. Back to sex? Maryse Holder
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As soon as whatever provisional well of confidence dries up, I will feel like a frightened motherless child. And I will–what? Lessee, I'll beg friends to assure me I'm fascinating, that my soul is complex so I can once more conduce to irony. An abyss opens up. Maryse Holder
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I'm sorry. This is diary, not enlightenment. Maryse Holder