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Quote by Jonathan Tropper

“But the muse won’t always cooperate and she will never be coerced. Sometimes she’d rather take a nap or see a mid-afternoon movie.”

Quote by Jonathan Tropper

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Jonathan Tropper
Jonathan Tropper

Jonathan Tropper, born in February 1970, is an American writer known for his humorous and emotionally deep works, which mainly focus on modern urban life and interpersonal relationships. more

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“But the truth, he knows, is otherwise. His pleasure in living has been snuffed out. Like a leaf on a stream, like a puffball on a breeze, he has begun to float towards his end. He sees it quite clearly, and it fills him with (the word will not go away) despair. The blood of life is leaving his body and despair is taking its place, despair that is like a gas, odourless, tasteless, without nourishment. You breathe it in, your limbs relax, you cease to care, even at the moment when the steel touches your throat.”