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Emptiness
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“I been through living for years. I just ain't dead yet.”
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“... when a gourd is hollowed out it becomes empty and is of great use to the world because of its emptiness.”
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“Everybody's mainspring is different. And I want to say this — folks whose mainsprings are busted are better dead.”
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“The emptiness was intense, like the stillness in a great factory when the machinery stops running.”
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“... what was the use of my having come from Oakland it was not natural to have come from there yes write about it if I like or anything if I like but not there, there is no there there.”
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“She had plenty of evidence that she had a good life. She just couldn't feel the life she saw she had. It was as though she had cancer of the perspective.”
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“So few that live have life ...”
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“I used to believe that anything was better than nothing. Now I know that sometimes nothing is better.”
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“Being empty is a beginning.”