Quotes of Stephen Dunn - somelinesforyou

“ I've tried to become someone else for a while, only to discover that he, too, was me. ”

- Stephen Dunn

“ I'll say I love you, Which will lead, of course, to disappointment, but those words unsaid poison every next moment. I will try to disappoint you better than anyone else has. ”

- Stephen Dunn

“ I’ll always deny that I kissed her. I was just whispering into her mouth. ”

- Stephen Dunn

“ Connubial Because with alarming accuracy she’d been identifying patterns I was unaware of—this tic, that tendency, like the way I've mastered the language of intimacy in order to conceal how I felt— I knew I was in danger of being terribly understood. ”

- Stephen Dunn

“ I will try to disappoint you better than anyone else has. ”

- Stephen Dunn

“ Bring to me, it said, continual proof / you've been alive. ”

- Stephen Dunn

“ Where are we going? It’s not an issue of here or there. And if you ever feel you can’t take another step, imagine how you might feel to arrive, if not wiser, a little more aware how to inhabit the middle ground between misery and joy. Trudge on. In the higher regions, where the footing is unsure, to trudge is to survive. ”

- Stephen Dunn

“ I think because my parents died in their early 50s, mid 50s, I always thought I would die young. And that's been both a useful thing and I suspect something that's haunted me a little bit. ”

- Stephen Dunn

“ I think most of our lives are made up of both things visible and things interior, with a large chunk of them being interior. ”

- Stephen Dunn

“ I think because my parents died in their early 50s, mid 50s, I always thought I would die young. And that's been both a useful thing and I suspect something that's haunted me a little bit. ”

- Stephen Dunn

“ I think because my parents died in their early 50s, mid 50s, I always thought I would die young. And that's been both a useful thing and I suspect something that's haunted me a little bit. ”

- Stephen Dunn

“ I think because my parents died in their early 50s, mid 50s, I always thought I would die young. And that's been both a useful thing and I suspect something that's haunted me a little bit. ”

- Stephen Dunn

“ I think most of our lives are made up of both things visible and things interior, with a large chunk of them being interior. ”

- Stephen Dunn

“ Although I know it's unfair I reveal myself one mask at a time. ”

- Stephen Dunn

“ I think because my parents died in their early 50s, mid 50s, I always thought I would die young. And that's been both a useful thing and I suspect something that's haunted me a little bit. ”

- Stephen Dunn

“ The reaction has been overwhelming, and I'm just getting used to it. I think I actually, though, could get used to it for a long time. ”

- Stephen Dunn

“ The reaction has been overwhelming, and I'm just getting used to it. I think I actually, though, could get used to it for a long time. ”

- Stephen Dunn

“ I think because my parents died in their early 50s, mid 50s, I always thought I would die young. And that's been both a useful thing and I suspect something that's haunted me a little bit. ”

- Stephen Dunn

“ Although I know it's unfair I reveal myself one mask at a time. ”

- Stephen Dunn

“ I think because my parents died in their early 50s, mid 50s, I always thought I would die young. And that's been both a useful thing and I suspect something that's haunted me a little bit. ”

- Stephen Dunn

“ The reaction has been overwhelming, and I'm just getting used to it. I think I actually, though, could get used to it for a long time. ”

- Stephen Dunn

“ I think most of our lives are made up of both things visible and things interior, with a large chunk of them being interior. ”

- Stephen Dunn
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