It’s like once everyone decides who you are, you’re locked into their version of you and that’s it.
Why do some memories bleed out of nowhere and others stay locked behind doors?
Yes, but another writer I read in high school who just knocked me out was Theodore Dreiser. I read An American Tragedy all in one weekend and couldn't put it down - I locked myself in my room. Now that was antithetical to every other book I was reading at the time because Dreiser really had no style, but it was powerful.
I was living in different accommodation and it was never in a place where I could set up my drums and play, so my drums would end up back in their cases and then in the garage. In the end I got used to the drums being locked up, I went a good eight years without touching drums.
Man and woman are two locked caskets, of which each contains the key to the other.
They have our bundles split open in museums our dresses & shirts at auctions our languages on tape our stories in locked rare book libraries our dances on film The only part of us they can't steal is what we know.
We were locked onto each other as though we had just discovered this incredible thing you could do with two mouths pressing close and moist against each other. And the taste of him. . . Horrifyingly, unbearably sweet -- sweet in the way crack must feel hitting the bloodstream of an addict after years of staying clean.
There is a brilliant child locked inside every student.
I walked away from everybody I knew. I locked myself in a loft that I rented, like I told you, where I was rolling quarters for cigarettes. I was having to borrow money off of the rent guy. . . the real estate agent that was renting me the loft.
We have a shotgun we inherited from my father-in-law, a paranoid Englishman living in Texas. I have a. 22 Marlin rifle, similar to the one Annie Oakley had, and my husband has a. 357 Magnum pistol. All those are locked up tight, of course. We have a couple of pellet guns that get more use than the real guns.
There was a point in my 40s when I went into the bathroom with a bottle of wine, locked the door, and said, 'I'm not coming out until I can totally accept the way that I look right now. '
I don't really talk about this because it seems indulgent, but I lost my hair, I'm bald, I had alopecia in my teens. That was back in the late '80s, well before people shaved their heads. So it's probably one of the reasons why I have been obsessed with that age, because it's locked in time where I feel like I had this personal loss that so affected my vanity, and I don't really feel like I handled it well. I'm so much older now, so it's not a big deal, but when I think back at it, I can conjure up how I felt then.
If I have renounced the search of truth, if I have come into the port of some pretending dogmatism, some new church, some Schelling or Cousin, I have died to all use of these new events that are born out of prolific time into multitude of life every hour. I am as bankrupt to whom brilliant opportunities offer in vain. He has just foreclosed his freedom, tied his hands, locked himself up and given the key to another to keep.
For reasons that have stunningly little to do with crime or crime rates, we, as a nation, have chosen to lock up more than two million people behind bars. Millions more are on probation or parole, or branded felons for life and thus locked into a permanent second-class status.
Women have seen that they have locked themselves up with feminist writing.
I scowled at the world. And the world scowled back. We were locked in a stare of mutual disgust.
To find his own salvation, a man must first find the fool locked inside himself and set it free.
I mean. . . who was it that said if the door is locked, find a window. If the windows locked, well. . . break it. If it won't break then find a freaking sledgehammer and make a new one.
I love Europe, but we are still struggling with that kind of development. First of all, we don't have a smart conversation about the difference between an immigrant and a refugee. A refugee can't go back. An immigrant is someone - I chose to move to America. And I also have the option of saying hey, didn't work out, I can move back. That's a completely different story than someone who is locked in.
We're all influenced by everything unless we're locked in an empty room.