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“The vampires in your life can’t be cured. Your best bet is to stay away from them. As Lynda Barry said, ‘You cannot fix Dracula by trying to convince him to just party in the sun with you.'”

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source: Kleon’s Tumblr, December 27, 2012.

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“Will I ever get home? It is like looking down a tremendous ski jump. The bottom is not so far away in time, but in effort and all one has to give to it, such a mighty jump.”

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source: Locked Rooms and Open Doors: Diaries and Letters of Anne Morrow Lindbergh 1933–1935 (New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1974), 127.

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notes: diary entry dated Saturday, October 21, 1933

“When you have been deprived of your usual quantity of sleep for several nights, you sleep much more soundly for it, and wake up suddenly like a bullet that strikes a wall.”

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source: The Journal 1837–1861 (New York: New York Review of Books, 2009), 539.

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notes: diary entry dated January 27, 1859

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