"they simply never understand, do they, that sometimes solitude is one of the most beautiful things on earth?"
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"my beerdrunk soul is sadder than all the dead christmas trees of the world."
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"Drinking is an emotional thing. It joggles you out of the standardism of everyday life, out of everything being the same."
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"The night kept coming on in and there was nothing I could do."
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"I felt I had to win. It seemed very important. I didn't know why it was important and I kept thinking, why do I think this is so important? And another part of me answered, just because it is."
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"the grace is being able to like rock music, symphony music, jazz … anything that contains the original energy of joy."
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"I didn't have any friends at school, didn't want any. I felt better being alone. I sat on a bench and watched the others play and they looked foolish to me."
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"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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"places to hunt places to hide are getting harder to find, and pet canaries and goldfish too, did you notice that?"
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"I am this fiery snail crawling home."
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"Intellectuals say simple things in difficult ways. Artists say difficult things in simple ways."
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"the tired sunsets and the tired people - it takes a lifetime to die and no time at all."
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"I can almost understand why people leap from bridges."
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"Things will be far worse than they are now. And far better. I wait."
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"Some men hope for revolution but when you revolt and set up your new government you find your new government is still the same old Papa, he has only put on a cardboard mask."
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"you've got to burn straight up and down and then maybe sidewise for a while and have your guts scrambled by a bully and the demonic ladies, you've got to run along the edge of madness teetering, you've got to starve like a winter alleycat, you've go to live with the imbecility of at least a dozen cities, then maybe maybe maybe you might know where you are for a tiny blinking moment."
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"The courage it took to get out of bed each morning to face the same things over and over was enormous."
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"i am with the roots of flowers entwined, entombed sending up my passionate blossoms as a flight of rockets and argument; wine churls my throat, above me feet walk upon my brain, monkies fall from the sky clutching photographs of the planets, but i seek only music and the leisure of my pain"
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"I have two rules. One is, never trust a man who smokes a pipe. The other is, never trust a man with shiny shoes."
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"if you get married they think you're finished and if you are without a woman they think you're incomplete."
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