"Some people have written that my writing has helped them go on. It has helped me too. The writing, the roses, the 9 cats."
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"If I have any advice to anybody it's this: take up watercolor painting."
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"You are thirty minutes late." "Yes." "Would you be thirty minutes late to a wedding or a funeral?" "No." "Why not, pray tell?" "Well, if the funeral was mine I'd have to be on time. If the wedding was mine it would be my funeral."
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"Something that never happens anywhere at any time."
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"people are not good to each other. perhaps if they were our deaths would not be so sad."
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"the people are the biggest horror show on earth, have been for centuries."
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"so it's always a process of letting go, one way or another"
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"The street to my left was backed up with traffic and I watched the people waiting patiently in the cars. There was almost always a man and a women, staring straight ahead, not talking. It was, finally, for everyone, a matter of waiting. You waited and you waited- for the hospital, the doctor, the plumber, the madhouse, the jail, papa death himself. First the signal red, then the signal was green. The citizens of the world ate food and watched t.v. and worried about their jobs or lack of the same, while they waited."
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"It was better for me when I could imagine greatness in others, even if it wasn't always there."
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"People just weren't interesting. Maybe they weren't supposed to be. But animals, birds, even insects were. I couldn't understand it."
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"there is enough treachery, hatred violence absurdity in the average human being to supply any given army on any given day and the best at murder are those who preach against it and the best at hate are those who preach love and the best at war finally are those who preach peace"
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"i was born to hustle roses down the avenue of the dead."
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"Learn, he says, that there will be hours, days and months ahead of feeling absolutely terrible and nothing can change that; neither new girlfriends, health professionals, changes of diet, dope, humility, or God."
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"I took no pride in my solitude; but I was dependent on it. The darkness of the room was like sunlight to me."
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"What's genius? I don't know but I do know that the difference between a madman and a professional is that a pro does as well as he can within what he has set out to do and a madman does exceptionally well at what he can't help doing."
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"yes, Wagner and the storm intermix with the wine as nights like this run up my wrists and up into my head and back down into the gut"
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"beware the average man the average woman beware their love, their love is average seeks average but there is genius in their hatred there is enough genius in their hatred to kill you to kill anybody not wanting solitude not understanding solitude they will attempt to destroy anything that differs from their own not being able to create art they will not understand art they will consider their failure as creators only as a failure of the world"
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"Sometimes there's luck, When there is you stock up on it and wait for the other times"
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"That's what friendship means: sharing the prejudice of experience."
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"You were destroyed by what you befriended."
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