“Writing is a form of personal freedom. It frees us from the mass identity we see in the making all around us. In the end, writers will write not to be outlaw heroes of some underculture but mainly to save themselves, to survive as individuals.”

Don Delillo

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Words. They either cost as much as the sturdy rope that snakes into a noose, or they come free, like the air that you breathe that keeps you going.

Cheap or priceless? Your call.

Can’t wait to come to my own rescue

And someday I will die happy, for I get “quoted” like the great men did. Cough.