"Was I the only person who was distracted by this future without a chance?"
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"and getting dressed we talk about what else there might be to do, but being together solves most of it, in fact, solves all of it"
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"there must be a way. surely there must be a way that we have not yet thought of. who put this brain inside of me? it cries it demands it says that there is a chance. it will not say "no."
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"There's nothing to mourn about death any more than there is to mourn about the growing of a flower. What is terrible is not death but the lives people live or don't live up until their death."
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"People were usually much better in their letters than in reality. They were much like poets in this way."
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"there was something about that city, though it didn't let me feel guilty that I had no feeling for the things so many others needed. it let me alone."
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"Of course, there would always be arguments. That is the nature of Woman. They like the mutual exchange of dirty laundry, a bit of screaming, a bit of dramatics. Then an exchange of vows."
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"And there I was, 225 pounds, perpetually lost and confused, short legs, ape-like upper body, all chest, no neck, head too large, blurred eyes, hair uncombed, 6 feet of geek, waiting for her."
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"I drive around the streets an inch away from weeping, ashamed of my sentimentality and possible love."
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"Why do we embroider everything we say with special emphasis when all we really need to do is simply say what needs to he said? Of course the fact is that there is very little that needs to be said."
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"this time has finished me."
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"and even the trees we walked under seemed less than trees and more like everything else."
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"I have a face like a washrag. I sing love songs and carry steel. I would rather die than cry. I can't stand hounds can't live without them. I hang my head against the white refrigerator and want to scream like the last weeping of life forever but I am bigger than the mountains."
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"The writer has no responsibility other than to jack off in bed alone and write a good page."
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"I can't blame her. but wonder why she's here with me? where are the other guys? how can you be lucky? having someone the others have abandoned?"
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"of one hundred movies there's one that is fair, one that's good and ninety eight that are very bad. most movies start badly and steadily get worse"
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"Her one drink had Cecelia giggling and talking and she was explaining that animals had souls too. Nobody challenged her opinion. It was possible, we knew. What we weren't sure of was if we had any."
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"well, i don't know about you but I'm going to try everything! War, women, travel, marriage, children, the works. [...]. I want to know about things, what makes them work!"
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"I had no Freedom. I had nothing."
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"Let' em learn or let' em die"
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