"Life's as kind as you let it be."
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"If you have the ability to love, love yourself first."
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"With me, my main vision for life was to avoid as many people as possible. The less people I saw the better I felt."
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"I couldn't get myself to read the want ads. The thought of sitting in front of a man behind a desk and telling him that I wanted a job, that I was qualified for a job, was too much for me. Frankly, I was horrified by life, at what a man had to do simply in order to eat, sleep, and keep himself clothed. So I stayed in bed and drank. When you drank the world was still out there, but for the moment it didn't have you by the throat."
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"I am not a man who looks for solutions in God or politics. If somebody else wants to do the dirty work and create a better world for us and he can do it, I will accept it."
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"our bones like stems into the sky will forever cry victory"
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"I am a series of small victories and large defeats."
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"They never pay the slaves enough so they can get free, just enough so they can stay alive and come back to work."
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"I often carry things to read so that I will not have to look at the people."
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"your letters got sadder. your lovers betrayed you. kid, I wrote back, all lovers betray. it didn't help. you said you had a crying bench and it was by a bridge and the bridge was over the river and you sat on the crying bench every night and wept for the lovers who had hurt and forgotten you."
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"I enjoy the bad things that are said about me. It enhances sales and makes me feel evil. I don't like to feel good 'cause I am good. But evil? Yes. It gives me another dimension."
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"More often than not Democratic Law works to the advantage of the few even though the many have voted; this, of course, is because the few have told them how to vote."
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"It’s so easy to be easy—if you let it."
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"Well, people got attatched. Once you cut the umbilical cord they attatched to the other things. Sight, sound, sex, money, mirages, mothers, masturbation, murder, and Monday morning hangovers."
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"Sexual intercourse is kicking death in the ass while singing."
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"The blankets had fallen off and I stared down at her white back, the shoulder blades sticking out as if they wanted to grow into wings, poke through that skin. Little blades. She was helpless."
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"Only the boring get bored"
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"To create art means to be crazy alone forever."
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"if it doesn't come bursting out of you in spite of everything, don't do it. unless it comes unasked out of your heart and your mind and your mouth and your gut, don't do it."
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"Lighting new cigarettes, pouring more drinks. It has been a beautiful fight. Still is."
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