"It's better to do a dull thing with style than a dangerous thing without it."
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"I had noticed that both in the very poor and very rich extremes of society the mad were often allowed to mingle freely."
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"I was only photographing in words the reality of it all."
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"Those who escape hell however never talk about it and nothing much bothers them after that"
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"little sun little moon little dog and a little to eat and a little to love and a little to live for in a little room filled with little mice who gnaw and dance and run while I sleep waiting for a little death in the middle of a little morning in a little city in a little state my little mother dead my little father dead in a little cemetery somewhere. I have only a little time to tell you this: watch out for little death when he comes running but like all the billions of little deaths it will finally mean nothing and everything: all your little tears burning like the dove, wasted."
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"dont undress my love you might find a mannequin dont undress the mannequin you might find love. shes long ago forgotten me. hes trying on a new hat and looks more the coquette then ever. she is a child and a mannequin and death. i can't hate that. she didnt do anything unusual. I only wanted her to."
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"I was so thin I could slice bread with my shoulderblades, only I seldom had bread."
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"It’s the order of things: each one gets a taste of honey then the knife."
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"I don't know if this is true to you but for me sometimes it gets so bad that anything else say like looking at a bird on an overhead power line seems as great as a Beethoven symphony. then you forget it and you're back again."
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"I hated you when it would have taken less courage to love."
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"It's 4:30 in the morning, it's always 4:30 in the morning."
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"Why did I come here? I thought. Why is it always only a matter of choosing between something bad and something worse?"
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"beware those quick to praise for they need praise in return beware those who are quick to censor they are afraid of what they do not know beware those who seek constant crowds for they are nothing alone beware the average man the average woman beware their love, their love is average seeks average"
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"people see so many movies that when they finally see one not so bad as the others, they think it's great. an Academy Award means that you don't stink quite as much as your cousin."
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"There is nothing that teaches you more than regrouping after failure and moving on."
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"When you drank the world was still out there, but for the moment it didn’t have you by the throat."
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"I was naturally a loner, content just to live with a woman, eat with her, sleep with her, walk down the street with her. I didn't want conversation, or to go anywhere except the racetrack or the boxing matches. I didn't understand t.v. I felt foolish paying money to go into a movie theatre and sit with other people to share their emotions. Parties sickened me. I hated the game-playing, the dirty play, the flirting, the amateur drunks, the bores."
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"God knows I am not too hippy. Perhaps because I am too much around the hip and I fear fads for, like anybody else, I like something that tends to last."
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"That’s when I first learned that it wasn’t enough to just do your job, you had to have an interest in it, even a passion for it."
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"To not to have entirely wasted one’s life seems to be a worthy accomplishment, if only for myself."
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