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I was drawn to all the wrong ...

I was drawn to all the wrong things: I liked to drink, I was lazy, I didn't have a god, politics, ideas, ideals. I was settled into nothingness; a kind of non-being, and I accepted it. I didn't make for an interesting person. I didn't want to be interesting, it was too hard. What I really wanted was only a soft, hazy space to live in, and to be left alone.

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If you're going to try, go al...

If you're going to try, go all the way. There is no other feeling like that. You will be alone with the gods, and the nights will flame with fire. You will ride life straight to perfect laughter. It's the only good fight there is.

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there is a place in the heart...

there is a place in the heart that will never be filled a space and even during the best moments and the greatest times times we will know it we will know it more than ever there is a place in the heart that will never be filled and we will wait and wait in that space.

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I never write in the daytime....

I never write in the daytime. It's like running through the shopping mall with your clothes off. Everybody can see you. At night ... that's when you pull the tricks ... magic.

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I had no interests. I had no ...

I had no interests. I had no interest in anything. I had no idea how I was going to escape. At least the others had some taste for life. They seemed to understand something that I didn’t understand. Maybe I was lacking. It was possible. I often felt inferior. I just wanted to get away from them. But there was no place to go. Suicide? Jesus Christ, just more work. I felt like sleeping for five years but they wouldn’t let me.

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there is always one woman to ...

there is always one woman to save you from another and as that woman saves you she makes ready to destroy

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But my whole life has been a ...

But my whole life has been a matter of fighting for one simple hour to do what I want to do. There was always something getting in the way of my getting to myself.

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Dog is much admired by Man be...

Dog is much admired by Man because he believes in the hand which feeds him. A perfect set-up. For 13 cents a day you've got a hired killer who thinks you are god. A dog can't tell a Nazi from a Republican from a Commie from a Democrat and, many times, neither can I.

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The Difference Between Art an...

The Difference Between Art and Life is that Art is More Bearable

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True revolution comes from tr...

True revolution comes from true revulsion; when things get bad enough the kitten will kill the lion.

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The streets were full of insa...

The streets were full of insane & dull people. Most of them lived in nice houses and didn't seem to work, and you wondered how they did it.

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It's better to do a dull thin...

It's better to do a dull thing with style than a dangerous thing without it.

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when I was a boy I used to dr...

when I was a boy I used to dream of becoming the village idiot. I used to lie in bed and imagine myself the happy idiot able to get food easily ...and easy sympathy, a planned confusion of not too much love or effort. some would claim that I have succeeded.

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Human relationships are stran...

Human relationships are strange. I mean, you are with one person a while, eating and sleeping and living with them, loving them, talking to them, going places together, and then it stops.

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Writing is like going to bed ...

Writing is like going to bed with a beautiful woman and afterwards she gets up, goes to her purse and gives me a handful of money.

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Intellectuals say simple thin...

Intellectuals say simple things in difficult ways. Artists say difficult things in simple ways.

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The writer has no responsibili...

The writer has no responsibility other than to jack off in bed alone and write a good page.

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It will rain all this night an...

It will rain all this night and we will sleep transfixed by the dark water as our blood runs through our fragile life.

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The Artist,' an ancient sage ...

The Artist,' an ancient sage had once said, 'is always sitting on the doorsteps of the rich.

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Of course, there would always ...

Of course, there would always be arguments. That is the nature of Woman. They like the mutual exchange of dirty laundry, a bit of screaming, a bit of dramatics. Then an exchange of vows.

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