Flora Rheta Schreiber Quotes

#1. The neurologist had dismissed her case after a single visit, handing out an easy nostrum by telling her father that if she continued to write poetry, she would be all right.

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#2. I'm not fit to occupy space. Excuse me for living.

Flora Rheta Schreiber

#3. You're never ready for what you have to do. You just do it. That makes you ready.

Flora Rheta Schreiber

#4. Will there never be an end that also has a beginning? Will there never be continuity bridging the awful void between now and some other time, a time in the future, a time in the past?

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#5. Do you know what it means to have a whole day ahead of you, a day you can call your own?

Flora Rheta Schreiber

#6. I realized how trapped I was by all the talk of the end of the world.

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#7. You knock yourself down. You don't think much of yourself. That's an uncomfortable feeling. So you project it on others and say, 'They don't like me.

Flora Rheta Schreiber

#8. I have to force myself even to move my eyeballs. It's so easy just to stare.

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#9. I have no point in procrastinating any longer..

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#10. Willard married his father in female form.

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#11. I want somebody to love, and I want somebody to love me. And nobody ever will. And that's why it hurts. Because it makes a difference. And when nobody cares, it makes you all mad inside and it makes you want to say things, tear up things, break things, get through the glass.

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#12. There is no past. Past is present when you carry it with you.

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#13. God fearing and man hating. Sugar sugar. There was so much sugar in the way they pretended to treat each other that I suffered from diabetes of the soul.

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#14. Well, it would have been easier if it were put on. But the only ruse of which I'm guilty is to have pretended for so long before coming to you that nothing was wrong. Pretending that the personalities did not exist has now caused me to lose about two days.

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#15. She'd abandoned the animal she loved as she herself had been abandoned repeatedly in the past by people who had claimed to love her.

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#16. The anger. The terror. The feeling of entrapment. the profound distrust of people.The wistful, plaintive conviction that a window, a thing, was more important than she. These feelings and attitudes, expressed in the course of this hour, were symptoms of some profound disturbance.

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#17. Isolated, she managed somehow to feel free - albeit with a freedom that made her want to smash a hole in the very center of the universe.

Flora Rheta Schreiber