"When you clean up a city, you destroy it."
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"Don't ever write a novel unless it hurts like a hot turd coming out."
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"Never get out of bed before noon."
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"There is nothing as boring as the truth."
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"Her violence frightened me. She always claimed that I was the jealous one, and I was often jealous, but when I saw things working against me I simply became disgusted and withdrew. Lydia was different. She reacted. She was the Head Cheerleader at the Game of Violence."
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"I have been treated better than I should have been---not by life in general nor by the machinery of things but by women."
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"Many a good man has been put under the bridge by a woman."
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"And yet women-good women--frightened me because they eventually wanted your soul, and what was left of mine, I wanted to keep."
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"I will put on my shoes and shirt and get out of here - it'll be better for all of us."
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"When I get down to my last dime I'll just walk over to skid row." "There are some real weirdos down there." "They're everywhere."
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"There would never be a way for me to live comfortably with people. Maybe I'd become a monk. I'd pretend to believe in God and live in a cubicle, play an organ and stay drunk on wine."
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"My part of the game is that I must live the best I can."
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"A woman has to have something on or there's nothing to take off."
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"I write right off the typer. I call it my "machinegun." I hit it hard, usually late at night while drinking wine and listening to classical music on the radio and smoking mangalore ganesh beedies."
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"The Artist," an ancient sage had once said, "is always sitting on the doorsteps of the rich."
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"my greatest problem was stamps, envelopes, paper and wine, with the world on the edge of World War II."
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"I would certainly end up forever crying the blues into a coffee cup in a park for old men playing chess or silly games of some sort."
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"The park grass looked greener, the park benches looked better and the flowers were trying harder."
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"The pest, in a sense, is a very superior being to us: he knows where to find us and how--usually in the bath or in sexual intercourse or asleep."
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"There was nothing glorious about the life of a drinker or the life of a writer."
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