"This incompleteness is all we have."
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"Sometimes a man doesn’t know what to do about things and sometimes it’s best to lie very still and try not to think at all about anything."
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"I never pump up my vulgarity. I wait for it to arrive in its own terms."
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"People just don't know how to write down a simple easy line. It's difficult for them; it's like trying to keep a hard-on while drowning - not many can do it."
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"It began as a mistake."
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"Never bring a lot of money to where a poor man lives. He can only lose what little he has. On the other hand it is mathematically possible that he might win whatever you bring with you. What you must do, with money and the poor, is never let them get too close to one another."
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"I am aware that a computer can’t create a poem, but neither can a typewriter."
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"I went to the bathroom and threw some water on my face, combed my hair. If I could only comb that face, I thought, but I can't."
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"I was an Agnostic. Agnostics didn't have much to argue about."
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"it seemed to me that I had never met another person on earth as discouraging to my happiness as my father. and it appeared that I had the same effect upon him."
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"I kept telling myself that all the women in the world weren´t whores, just mine."
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"The problem was you had to keep choosing between one evil or another, and no matter what you chose, they sliced a little bit more off you, until there was nothing left."
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"That's the way it ends. The thin edge of the wedge."
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"Potential," I said, "doesn't mean a thing. You've got to do it. Almost every baby in a crib has more potential than I have."
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"If you can't write the next line, well, you're dead. The past doesn't matter."
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"some men never die and some men never live but we're all alive tonight."
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"Even the stove and the refrigerator looked human, I mean good human - they seemed to have arms and voices and they said, hang around, kid, it's good here, it can be very good here."
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"To me Art (poetry) is a continuous and continuing process and that when a man fails to write good poetry he fails to live fully or well."
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"A woman must be nursed into subsistence by love, where a man can become stronger by being hated." - from 'Cows in Art Class"
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"it is all ash and dry leaves and grief gone like an ocean liner."
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