"the tigers have found me and I do not care."
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"It’s never quite right, all the things we are taught, all the loves we chase, all the deaths we die, all the lives we live."
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"I would be married, but I'd have no wife, I would be married to a single life."
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"There may not be a hell, but those who judge may create one. I think people are over-taught. They are over-taught everything. You have to find out by what happens to you, how you will react. I'll have to use a strange term here... "good." I don't know where it comes from, but I feel that there's an ultimate strain of goodness born in each of us. I don't believe in God, but I believe in this "goodness" like a tube running through our bodies. It can be nurtured. It's always magic, when on a freeway packed with traffic, a stranger makes room for you to change lanes... it gives you hope."
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"People were interesting at first. Then later, slowly but surely, all the flaws and madness would manifest themselves. I would become less and less to them; they would mean less and less to me."
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"My dear, Find what you love and let it kill you. Let it drain you of your all. Let it cling onto your back and weigh you down into eventual nothingness. Let it kill you and let it devour your remains. For all things will kill you, both slowly and fastly, but it’s much better to be killed by a lover. ~ Falsely yours"
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"Genius might be the ability to say a profound thing in a simple way."
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"What a woman wants is a reaction. What a man wants is a woman."
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"You have my soul and I have your money"
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"Drink from the well of yourself and begin again."
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"It's possible to love a human being if you don't know them too well."
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"I want so much that is not here and do not know where to go."
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"True revolution comes from true revulsion; when things get bad enough the kitten will kill the lion."
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"He asked, "What makes a man a writer?" "Well," I said, "it's simple. You either get it down on paper, or jump off a bridge."
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"being alone never felt right. sometimes it felt good, but it never felt right."
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"Bad poetry is caused by people who sit down and think, Now I am going to write a Poem."
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"The Difference Between Art and Life is that Art is More Bearable"
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"I was beaten down long ago in some alley in another world."
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"there's a bluebird in my heart that wants to get out but I'm too clever, I only let him out at night sometimes when everybody's asleep. I say, I know that you're there, so don't be sad. then I put him back, but he's singing a little in there, I haven't quite let him die and we sleep together like that with our secret pact and it's nice enough to make a man weep, but I don't weep, do you?"
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"Any asshole can chase a skirt, art takes discipline."
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