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  1. James Baldwin _ Nobody Knows My Name

    Many have given up. They stay home and watch the TV screen, living on the earnings of their parents, cousins, bothers, or uncles, and only leave the house to go to the movies or to the nearest bar. "How're you making it?" on may ask, running into them along the block, or in the bar. "Oh, I'm TV-ing it"; with the saddest, sweetest, most shamefaced of smiles, and from a great distance. This distance one is compelled to respect; anyone who has traveled so far will not easily be dragged again into the world. There are further retreats, of course, than the TV screen or the bar. There are those who are simply sitting on their stoops, "stoned," animated for a moment only, and hideously, by the approach of someone who may lend them the money for a "fix." Or by the approach of someone from whom they can purchase it, one of the shrewd ones, on the way to prison or just coming out.
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  2. Virginia Woolf _ The Waves

    This self now as I leant over the gate looking down over fields rolling in waves of colour beneath me made no answer. He threw up no opposition. He attempted no phrase. His fist did not form. I waited. I listened. Nothing came, nothing. I cried then with a sudden conviction of complete desertion. Now there is nothing. No fin breaks the waste of this immeasurable sea. Life has destroyed me. No echo comes when I speak, no varied words. This is more truly death than the death of friends, than the death of youth.
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  3. Lois Lowry _ A Summer to Die

    It's hard to give up the being together with someone.
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  4. Khaled Hosseini _ And the Mountains Echoed

    i want to give up my bearings, slip out of who i am, shed everything, the way a snake discards old skin.
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  5. Anne Lamott _ Joe Jones

    I just gave up one day. Around the time the news about toxic shock came out. I thought, Fuck me, man, I give up. Come and get me.
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  6. Jodi Picoult _ Mercy

    Three months ago, if you asked me, I would have told you that if you really loved someone, you'd let them go. But now I look at you, and I dreamed about Maggie, and I see that I've been wrong. If you really love someone, Allie, I think you have to take them back."
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  7. Nikki Sex _ Abuse

    I have found that sometimes when a person gives up on 'humankind' they can often find trust and love in animal kind. André Chevalier
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  8. Jennifer L. Armentrout _ The Problem with Forever

    It was me who had to carry myself over the finish line, and all I needed to remember when I felt like not trying was that that feeling wouldn't last forever.
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  9. Mitch Albom _ For One More Day

    Being unheard is the ground floor of giving up, and giving up is the ground floor of doing yourself in. It's not so much, what's the point? It's more like, what's the difference?
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