"the best often die by their own hand just to get away, and those left behind can never quite understand why anybody would ever want to get away from them"
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"Writers are nothing but beggars with a good line."
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"since some people had told me that I was ugly, I always preferred shade to the sun, darkness to light"
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"What were you going to do tonight?" "I was going to listen to the songs of Rachmaninoff." "Who's that?" "A dead Russian."
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"Art is its own excuse, and it's either Art or it's something else. It's either a poem or a piece of cheese."
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"I hid in bars, because I didn't want to hide in factories."
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"Death is not the problem; waiting around for it is."
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"We must.. We must bring our own light to the darkness"
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"Human relationships are strange. I mean, you are with one person a while, eating and sleeping and living with them, loving them, talking to them, going places together, and then it stops."
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"There's music in everything, even defeat"
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"whiskey makes the heart beat faster but it sure doesn't help the mind and isn't it funny how you can ache just from the deadly drone of existence?"
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"The years have gone by quickly. Death sits in the seat next to me. We make a lovely couple."
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"Early evening traffic was beginning to clog the avenue with cars. The sun slanted down behind him. Harry glanced at the drivers of the cars. They seemed unhappy. The world was unhappy. People were in the dark. People were terrified and disappointed. People were caught in traps. People were defensive and frantic. They felt as if their lives were being wasted. And they were right."
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"We are all museums of fear."
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"the last cigarettes are smoked, the loaves are sliced, and lest this be taken for wry sorrow, drown the spider in wine. you are much more than simply dead: I am a dish for your ashes, I am a fist for your vanished air. the most terrible thing about life is finding it gone."
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"It’s not so much that nothing means anything but more that it keeps meaning nothing. there’s no release, just gurus and self- appointed gods and hucksters. the more people say, the less there is to say. even the best books are dry sawdust."
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"The empty, the angry, the lonely, the tricked, we are all museums of fear."
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"the beautiful are found in the edge of a room crumpled into spiders and needles and silence and we can never understand why they left,they were so beautiful. they dont make it, the beautiful die young and leave the ugly to their ugly lives."
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"I'm going, she said. I love you but you're crazy, you're doomed."
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"Each man's hell is in a different place: mine is just up and behind my ruined face."
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