"eleven months. now she's gone gone as they go."
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"we sat there smoking cigarettes at 5 in the morning."
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"my 6 foot goddess makes me laugh the laughter of the mutilated who still need love... she has saved me from everything that is not here"
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"i am going to start selling air in dark orange bags marked: moon-blooms"
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"Hell, I'd even failed with women. Three wives. Nothing really wrong each time. It all got destroyed by petty bickering. Railing about nothing. Getting pissed-off over anything and everything. Day by day, year by year, grinding. Instead of helping each other you just sliced away, picked at this or that. Goading. Endless goading. It became a cheap contest. And once you got into it, it became habitual. You couldn't seem to get out. You almost didn't want to get out. And then you did get out. All the way."
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"we had such tremendous fun and much agony together for some years"
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"life itself is not the miracle. that pain should be so constant, that's the miracle -"
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"there are so many days when living stops and pulls up and sits and waits like a train on the rails."
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"agony sometimes changes form but it never ceases for anybody."
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"I went home each night dizzy and sick. He was murdering me with the sound of his voice."
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"A man needed somebody. There wasn't anybody around, so you had to make up somebody, make him up to be like a man should be. It wasn't make-believe or cheating. The other way was make-believe and cheating: living your life without a man like him around."
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"Four days alone with nothing. Emerge empowered. The first human face you see will knock you back 50%."
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"Complaint is often the result of an insufficient ability to live within the obvious restrictions of this god damned cage."
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"I'm too careless. I don't put out enough effort. I'm tired."
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"I broke that town in half like a wooden match."
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"Well, the rain had stopped but the pain was still there."
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"I can see where creation often stops while the body still lives and often does not care to. the death of life before life dies."
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"The world had somehow gone too far, and spontaneous kindness could never be so easy."
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"they thought I had guts they were wrong I was only frightened of more important things"
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"from the beginning, through the middle years and up to the end: too bad, too bad, too bad."
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