"Fight Till The Last Gasp"

Susan Sontag, from “The Dummy”, featured in I, Etcetera: Stories

[ID: August 30. Cold and empty. END ID]

from Autopsy by Donte Collins

[Text ID: “I got cursed, in every way a / woman can. / You kill yourself, over and over, / to be different.”]

[text ID: I just want a humble, murderously simple thing: that a person be glad when I walk into the room.]

Alain de Botton, Essays in Love [transcript in ALT]

kofi

[Text ID: “I can’t exist in a way that comforts you.”]

Safia Elhillo, from "Summer," Girls That Never Die.

- Mahmoud Darwish from 'Memory for Forgetfulness: August, Beirut c. 1982 (tr. Ibrahim Muhawi)

—Oscar Wilde

— advice to young writers

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Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu's Carmilla 1872