"People don't do me much good."
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"Not everybody thought they could be a dentist or an automobile mechanic but everybody knew they could be a writer."
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"I was drawn to all the wrong things: I liked to drink, I was lazy, I didn't have a god, politics, ideas, ideals."
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"I'm very clever at hiding poems perhaps more clever than I am at writing them."
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"and the color in my eyes has gone back into the sea."
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"My flesh looked like it wasn't trying. It looked like it hated being part of me."
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"They have no idea that it can be done by a bus driver, a field hand, or a fry cook. They have no idea where it comes from. It comes from pain, damnation and impossibility. The blow to the soul of the gut. It comes from getting burned and seared and slugged. It comes from...new and awful places and the same old places."
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"If you can only remain pure in your stupidity, someday you may get a phone call from hell."
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"Fay had a spot of blood on the left side of her mouth and I took a wet cloth and wiped it off. Women were meant to suffer; no wonder they asked for constant declarations of love."
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"You've got to rise from the floor alone or fall back alone."
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"I knew it would be you"
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"You have to lay down in the center of the action lay down and wait until it charges then you must get up face it get it before it gets you the whole process is more shy than vulnerable so lay down and wait sometimes it's ten minutes sometimes it's years sometimes it never arrives but you can't rush it push it there's no way to cheat or get a jump on it you have to lay down lay down and wait like an animal ."
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"Hemingway and Saroyan had the line, the magic of it. The problem was that Hemingway didn't know how to laugh and Saroyan was filled with sugar."
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"In a more universal sense, we only get one thing. You know...a head stone if we're lucky; if not, green grass."
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"the whole world is caught in her glance and at last the universe is magnificent."
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"There's nothing unusual about love."
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"I have one problem, I don’t hate people. They disgust me and I want to get away from them. I do not have hatred. I have an escape mechanism."
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"be it peace or happiness let it enfold you"
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"Fiction is an improvement on life"
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"People don't need love. What they need is success in one form or another. It can be love but it needn't be."
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