"People who believe in politics are like people who believe in God: they are sucking wind through bent straws."
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"I grow tired of 18th century moralities in a 20th century space-atomic age"
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"The hangover was brutal but he didn't mind. It told him he had been somewhere else, someplace good."
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"Careful poetry and careful people live only long enough to die safely."
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"New Year's Eve always terrifies me."
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"Love is all right for those who can handle the psychic overload. It's like trying to carry a full garbage can on your back over a rushing river of piss."
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"The ladies usually go for the biggest damn fool they can find; that is why the human race stands where it does today: we have bred the clever and lasting Casanovas, all hollow inside, like the chocolate Easter bunnies we foster upon our poor children."
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"I once lay in a white hospital for the dying and the dying self, where some god pissed a rain of reason to make things grow only to die, where on my knees I prayed for LIGHT, I prayed for l*i*g*h*t, and praying crawled like a blind slug into the web where threads of wind stuck against my mind and I died of pity for Man, for myself, on a cross without nails, watching in fear as the pig belches in his sty, farts, blinks and eats."
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"Sundays kill more people than bombs."
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"We’ve died so many times now that we can only wonder why we still care."
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"Those who preach god, need god Those who preach peace do not have peace Those who preach love do not have love"
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"Never envy a man his lady. Behind it all lays a living hell."
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""Baby," I said. "I'm a genius but nobody knows it but me.""
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"Don't wait for the good woman. She doesn't exist. There are women who can make you feel more with their bodies and their souls but these are the exact women who will turn the knife into you right in front of the crowd."
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"Gradually I came to realize that my understanding of women goes only as far as the pleasure is concerned."
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"If I hadn't been a drunkard, I probably would have committed suicide long ago."
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"It’s when you hide things that you choke on them."
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"there is enough treachery , hatred violence absurdity in the average human being to supply any given army on any given day"
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"I was in love again. I was in trouble"
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"So, that’s what they wanted: lies. Beautiful lies. That’s what they needed. People were fools. It was going to be easy for me."
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