"When a writer is swayed with his fame and his fortune, you can float him down the river with the turds."
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"I sit here drunk now. I am a series of small victories and large defeats and I am as amazed as any other that I have gotten from there to here without committing murder or being murdered; without having ended up in the madhouse. as I drink alone again tonight my soul despite all the past agony thanks all the gods who were not there for me then."
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"Find what you love and let it kill you. For all things will kill you, both slowly and fastly, but it’s much better to be killed by a lover."
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"nothing can save you except writing. it keeps the walls from failing."
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"there are worse things than being alone but it often takes decades to realize this and most often when you do it's too late and there's nothing worse than too late"
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"It was too much. The comfortable people made comfortable jokes about weather and things but I sat mostly silent saying a word or so when necessary a word or so trying to hide from them the fact that I was a fool and feeling terrible And I was numb, numb again, numb again again and again, numbness and pain swelling in me."
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"young or old, good or bad, I don't think anything dies as slow and as hard as a writer."
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"A spark can set a whole forest on fire. Just a spark. Save it."
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"Basically, that's why I wrote: to save my ass, to save my ass from the madhouse, from the streets, from myself."
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"It will rain all this night and we will sleep transfixed by the dark water as our blood runs through our fragile life."
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"I feel strangely normal."
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"Long ago, among other lies they were taught that silence was bravery."
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"They, all of them, seemed to put literary form in front of the actuality and living of life itself."
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"... to die on a kitchen floor at 7 o'clock in the morning while other people are frying eggs is not so rough unless it happens to you."
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"I didn't like anybody in that school. I think they knew that. I think that's why they disliked me. I didn't like the way they walked or looked or talked, but I didn't like my mother or father either. I still had the feeling of being surrounded by white empty space. There was always a slight nausea in my stomach."
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"I never understood society. i undersand that it works somehow and that it functions as a reality and that its realities are necessary to keep us from worse realities. but all i sense are that are plenty of police and jails and judges and laws and that what is meant to protect me is breaking me down."
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"I'm not the cruel type, but they are, and that's the secret."
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"… and we are in bed together laughing and we don’t care about anything."
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"I got up and walked back to my roominghouse. The moonlight was bright. My footsteps echoed in the empty street and it sounded as if somebody was following me, I looked around. I was mistaken. I was quite alone."
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"morning night and noon the traffic moves through and the murder and treachery of friends and lovers and all the people move through you. pain is the joy of knowing the unkindest truth that arrives without warning. life is being alone death is being alone. even the fools weep morning night and noon."
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