"But in my life, in my personality, there is an essence of falseness and insincerity. A thin, fine vapor of fraud hangs always over me and dampens and injures some things in me that I value."

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Source : Mary MacLane (2014). “I Await the Devil's Coming: Annotated & Unexpurgated”, p.59, Petrarca Press

Mary MacLane

#Essence Quotes #Personality Quotes #Vapor Quotes

“France, for example, loves at the same time history and the drama, because the one explores the vast destinies of humanity, and the other the individual lot of man.”
“The real struggle is about you: you, a person who has to learn to live in the real world, to inhabit her own skin, to know her own heart, to stop waiting for life to begin.”
“It's wonderful to feel supported, but there's a lot of negative energy towards me as well. So I ignore it, to be honest. If I started to read it all it would completely mess up my head.”
“It's regrets that make painful memories. When I was crazy I did everything just right.”

Source : Mark Vonnegut (2011). “The Eden Express: A Memoir of Insanity”, p.90, Seven Stories Press
“For I often please myself with the fancy, now that I may have saved from oblivion the only striking passage in a whole volume, and now that I may have attracted notice to a writer undeservedly forgotten.”
“I would never become a big, big model in the commercial sense because I was such a type; you couldn't use me in everything.”
“They who plough the sea do not carry the winds in their hands.”
“We've been pretty successful over the years, not necessarily adding series regulars, but just bringing long-term recurring characters. In my opinion, it's sort of like as life goes, you have people that come in and out of your life.”

Source : Source: deadline.com

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