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The street to my left was bac...

The street to my left was backed up with traffic and I watched the people waiting patiently in the cars. There was almost always a man and a women, staring straight ahead, not talking. It was, finally, for everyone, a matter of waiting. You waited and you waited- for the hospital, the doctor, the plumber, the madhouse, the jail, papa death himself. First the signal red, then the signal was green. The citizens of the world ate food and watched t.v. and worried about their jobs or lack of the same, while they waited.

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Getting drunk was good. I dec...

Getting drunk was good. I decided that I would always like getting drunk. It took away the obvious and maybe if you could get away from the obvious often enough, you wouldn't become so obvious yourself.

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I am ashamed to be a member o...

I am ashamed to be a member of the human race but I don't want to add any more to that shame, I want to scrape a little of it off.

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beware the average man the av...

beware the average man the average woman beware their love, their love is average seeks average but there is genius in their hatred there is enough genius in their hatred to kill you to kill anybody not wanting solitude not understanding solitude they will attempt to destroy anything that differs from their own not being able to create art they will not understand art they will consider their failure as creators only as a failure of the world

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News travels fast in places w...

News travels fast in places where nothing much ever happens.

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It was sad, it was sad, it wa...

It was sad, it was sad, it was sad. When Betty came back we didn't sing or laugh, or even argue. We sat drinking in the dark, smoking cigarettes, and when we went to sleep, I didn't put my feet on her body or she on mine like we used to. We slept without touching. We had both been robbed.

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I've learned to feel good whe...

I've learned to feel good when I feel good. it's better to be driven around in a red porsche than to own one. the luck of the fool is inviolate.

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escape from the black widow s...

escape from the black widow spider is a miracle as great as art. what a web she can weave slowly drawing you to her she'll embrace you then when she's satisfied she'll kill you still in her embrace and suck the blood from you.

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there are worse things than b...

there are worse things than being alone but it often takes decades to realize this and most often when you do it's too late and there's nothing worse than too late

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bad writing's like bad women:...

bad writing's like bad women: there's just not much you can do about it

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If you can hit a guy once, yo...

If you can hit a guy once, you can hit him twice.

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What's genius? I don't know b...

What's genius? I don't know but I do know that the difference between a madman and a professional is that a pro does as well as he can within what he has set out to do and a madman does exceptionally well at what he can't help doing.

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Bullfighting can be an art Bo...

Bullfighting can be an art Boxing can be an art Loving can be an art Opening a can of sardines can be an art

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and I laugh, I can still laug...

and I laugh, I can still laugh, who can't laugh when the whole thing is so ridiculous that only the insane, the clowns, the half-wits, the cheaters, the whores, the horseplayers, the bankrobbers, the poets ... are interesting?

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If I have any advice to anybo...

If I have any advice to anybody it's this: take up watercolor painting.

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There's no light at the end o...

There's no light at the end of the tunnel, there isn't even a tunnel. The best thing I can do is get drunk and listen to classical music. Or sleep and wait for death to get closer. Leaving this will not be a horrible thing. Yet I'm glad, somehow, that I threw my words in the air: confetti, celebrating nothing.

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She was desperate and she was...

She was desperate and she was choosey at the same time and, in a way, beautiful, but she didn't have quite enough going for her to become what she imagined herself to be.

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New Year's Eve always terrifi...

New Year's Eve always terrifies me.

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I got lost somehow, began sta...

I got lost somehow, began staring up her legs. I was always a leg man. It was the first thing I saw when I was born. But then I was trying to get out. Ever since I have been working in the other direction and with pretty lousy luck.

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Parties sickened me. I hated ...

Parties sickened me. I hated the game-playing, the dirty play, the flirting, the amateurs drunks, the bores.

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Кира Найтли на страницах журнала к выходу фильма «Пиджак», 2005. Следы динозавра, раскопанные в русле реки Палакси. Техас. США. 1952г. Самая большая женщина рядом с самым маленьким мужчиной, 1922 год....