"Sometimes you climb out of bed in the morning and you think, I'm not going to make it, but you laugh inside — remembering all the times you've felt that way."
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"what matters most is how well you walk through the fire"
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"I am not a snob; it is simply that I am not interested with what most people have to say, or what they want to do — mostly with my time."
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""she’ mad but she’ magic. there’ no lie in her fire."
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"The masses are always wrong...Wisdom is doing everything the crowd does not do. All you do is reverse the totality of their learning and you have the heaven they're looking for."
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"The less I needed, the better I felt."
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"We don’t even ask happiness, just a little less pain."
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"as the spirit wanes the form appears"
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"There's a bluebird in my heart that wants to get out but I'm too tough for him, I say, stay in there, I'm not going to let anybody see you."
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"We have wasted History like a bunch of drunks shooting dice back in the men's crapper of the local bar."
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"God is a lonely place without steak."
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"Simplicity is always the secret, to a profound truth, to doing things, to writing, to painting. Life is profound in its simplicity"
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"Almost everybody is born a genius and buried an idiot."
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"The crowd is the gathering place of the weakest; true creation is a solitary act."
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"Censorship is the tool of those who have the need to hide actualities from themselves and from others. Their fear is only their inability to face what is real, and I can't vent any anger against them. I only feel this appalling sadness. Somewhere, in their upbringing, they were shielded against the total facts of our existence. They were only taught to look one way when many ways exist."
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"Let it die. Let there be a new beginning. It’s awful. Goodnight."
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"I think that everything should be made available to everybody, and I mean LSD, cocaine, codeine, grass, opium, the works. Nothing on earth available to any man should be confiscated and made unlawful by other men in more seemingly powerful and advantageous positions."
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"Writing is like going to bed with a beautiful woman and afterwards she gets up, goes to her purse and gives me a handful of money."
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"Dog is much admired by Man because he believes in the hand which feeds him. A perfect set-up. For 13 cents a day you've got a hired killer who thinks you are god. A dog can't tell a Nazi from a Republican from a Commie from a Democrat and, many times, neither can I."
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"To me, nudity is a joke. I don't think nude people are very attractive at all. I like my women fully clothed. I like to imagine what might be under there. It might not be the standard thing. Imagine, stripping a woman down, and she has a body like a little submarine. With periscope, propellers, torpedoes. That would be the one for me. I'd marry her right off and be faithful to the end."
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