"well, death says, as he walks by, I'm going to get you anyhow no matter what you've been: writer, cab-driver, pimp, butcher, sky-diver, I'm going to get you"
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"I'll get back to the whores and the horses and the booze, while there's time."
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"Sweet Christ, you must know that a man will go further for any poem than for any woman ever born."
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"I think a man can keep on drinking for centuries, he'll never die; especially wine or beer...I like drunkards, man, because drunkards, they come out of it, and they're sick and they spring back, they spring back and forth...If I hadn't been a drunkard, I probably would have committed suicide long ago."
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"I take much pleasure in being alone but there is also a strange warm grace in not being alone."
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"Hey, Hank, I notice all the women around your place lately ... good looking stuff; you're doing all right." "Sam," I say, "that's not true; I am one of God's most lonely men."
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"The role of the poet is almost nothing...drearily nothing. And when he steps outside of his boots and tries to get tough as our dear Ezra [Pound] did, he will get his pink little ass slapped."
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"and our few good times will be rare because we have the critical sense and are not easy to fool with laughter"
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"It seemed better to delay thinking."
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"Love is a form of prejudice. I have too many other prejudices."
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"They looked as if nothing had ever touched them--all well-mothered, protected, with a soft sheen of contentment. None of them had ever been in jail, or worked hard with their hands, or even gotten a traffic ticket. Skimmed-milk jollies, the whole bunch."
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"There is no hurry. Time means nothing to you."
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"and love was lightning and remembrance"
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"Keep your money in your pocket. Or bet it on a good horse."
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"We are here to laugh at the odds."
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"the writing of some men is like a vast bridge that carries you over the many things that claw and tear. The Wine of Forever"
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"Once in a dream I saw a snake swallowing its own tail, it swallowed and swallowed until it got halfway round, and there it stopped and there it stayed, it was stuffed with its own self. Some fix, that. We only have ourselves to go on, and it's enough."
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"in this room the hours of love still make shadows."
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"First paycheck I get, I thought, I'm going to get myself a room near the downtown L.A. Public Library."
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"there's no defense except all the errors made"
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