"The secret is writing down one simple line after another."
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"we know God is dead, they've told us, but listening to you I wasn't sure."
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"all that I know is that I believe in the sound of music and the running of a horse. all else is squabble."
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"A love like that was a serious illness, an illness from which you never entirely recover."
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"pain is absurd because it exists, nothing more."
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"In the morning it was morning and I was still alive."
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"I want to let her know though that all the nights sleeping beside her even the useless arguments were things ever splendid and the hard words I ever feared to say can now be said: I love you."
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"I like to change liquor stores frequently because the clerks got to know your habits if you went in night and day and bought huge quantities. I could feel them wondering why I wasn't dead yet and it made me uncomfortable. They probably weren't thinking any such thing, but then a man gets paranoid when he has 300 hangovers a year."
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"If it doesn't come bursting out of you in spite of everything, don’t do it."
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"I could see the road ahead of me. I was poor and I was going to stay poor. But I didn't particularly want money. I didn't know what I wanted. Yes, I did. I wanted someplace to hide out, someplace where one didn't have to do anything. The thought of being something didn't only appall me, it sickened me . . . To do things, to be part of family picnics, Christmas, the 4th of July, Labor Day, Mother's Day . . . was a man born just to endure those things and then die? I would rather be a dishwasher, return alone to a tiny room and drink myself to sleep."
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"The whole LSD, STP, marijuana, heroin, hashish, prescription cough medicine crowd suffers from the "Watchtower" itch: you gotta be with us, man, or you're out, you're dead. This pitch is a continual and seeming MUST with those who use the stuff. It's no wonder they keep getting busted."
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"purple does something strange to me"
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"Animals never worry about Heaven or Hell. Neither do I. Maybe that's why we get along."
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"Without literature, life is hell."
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"I had no feeling for the things so many others needed."
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"The difference between a brave man and a coward is a coward thinks twice before jumping in the cage with a lion. The brave man doesn't know what a lion is. He just thinks he does."
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"I didn't like parties.I didn't know how to dance and people frightened me, especially people at parties. They attempted to be sexy and gay and witty and although they hoped they were good at it, they weren 't. They were bad at it. Their trying so hard only made it worse."
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"Pretty words, as pretty women, wrinkle up and die."
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"If you want to know where God is, ask a drunk."
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"nobody can save you but yourself. you will be put again and again into nearly impossible situations. they will attempt again and again through subterfuge, guise and force to make you submit, quit and/or die quietly inside. nobody can save you but yourself"
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