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- Sylvia Plath (1932 – 1963) “Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one’s head, and listen to silence.
- John Berryman (1914 – 1972) “We must travel in the direction of our fear.” Another wonderful writer who struggled with depression — as well as alcoholism — for most of his life, Berryman was one of the most celebrated American poets at the time of his death.
- Virginia Woolf (1882 – 1941) “I thought how unpleasant it is to be locked out; and I thought how it is worse, perhaps, to be locked in.” Shortly after finishing the manuscript of what was to be her last novel, Between the Acts, Woolf experienced a bout of depression such as had been plaguing her for years (like Plath, she had attempted suicide before).
- David Foster Wallace (1962 – 2008) “The so-called ‘psychotically depressed’ person who tries to kill herself doesn’t do so out of quote ‘hopelessness’ or any abstract conviction that life’s assets and debits do not square.
Feb 7, 1999 · The writer pulled back from these thoughts, and then read "Voices of Death," by Dr. Edwin Shneidman, which had an account of a woman describing her various attempts at suicide. The writer...
Jul 17, 2008 · Eric handed over his wallet, while Steve, the aspiring actor, passed out from drunkenness. But the third man, the screenwriter, Ike Marcus, walked up to the boy holding the gun and said, ‘Not tonight, my man,’ with by now predictable results. Among themselves, the cops pronounce it ‘suicide by mouth’.
Apr 6, 2013 · "Don’t gossip [about my death]. The deceased hated gossip.” This is perhaps the most famous suicide line ever written. Its author was Vladimir Mayakovsky.
- Tal Niv
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Sep 27, 2024 · In 1984, he married his first wife, then got sober and had two daughters. The pair divorced in 2010, and, in 2012, Price married novelist Lorraine Adams, whom he calls his “raw-hearted twin.”
Feb 13, 2015 · He got divorced, sold his family’s art-filled Gramercy Park townhouse —and then, in 2008, married the writer Lorraine Adams at a ceremony in his new home, a five-story Harlem brownstone ...
Feb 1, 2008 · “Richard Price, in Clockers, his novel about a small-time New Jersey crack dealer accused of murder, did this much better. One reason, perhaps, that Price was able to write honestly about his...
