ah

i feel like ppl who doesn't know how to write, write "poetry"

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i want to try reading the bell jar even tho i'm against reading books by depressed people since depressed people can only speak from the point of view that life is pointless but i want to know what the fuss is about and i want to know how to dismiss it in the right way

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joyce maynard's childhood is so awful

the way she learned to write (by force, and through "training" by her mother)...no one should ever write like that

that's why she sounds so ordinary