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"and I shudder sometimes to think of all that stellar mystery of how she IS going to get me in a future lifetime, wow - And I seriously do believe that will be my salvation, too. A long way to go."
"I'm stuck struggling in the cold water, and all I can do is grieve, grieve, in the hoar necessitous horror of the morning, bitterly I hate myself, bitterly it's too late yet while I feel better I still feel ephemeral and unreal and unable to straighten my thoughts or even really grieve, in fact I feel too stupid to be really bitter, in short I don't know what I'm doing and I'm being told what to do."
"Everything I wrote was true because I believed what I saw."
"I petted the dogs who didn't argue with me ever. All dogs love God. They're wiser than their masters."
"Life is life, and kind is kind"
"Somebody had tipped the American continent like a pinball machine and all the goofballs had come rolling to LA in the southwest corner. I cried for all of us. There was no end to the American sadness and the American madness. Someday we'll all start laughing and roll on the ground when we realize how funny it's been."
"Let nature do the freezing and frightening and isolating in this world. let men work and love and fight it off."
"I was having a wonderful time and the whole world opened up before me because I had no dreams."
"Bee, why are you staring at me? I am not a flower??"
"The dream is already ended and we're already awake in the golden eternity."
"To think that so much comes to so little, to think that life is really short."
"In my madness I was actually in love with her for the few hours it all lasted; it was the same unmistakable ache and stab across the mind, the same sighs, the same pain, and above all the same reluctance and fear to approach."
"I see as much as doors'll allow, open or shut."
"I have been writing my heart out all my life, but only getting a living out of it now.... ... it's not a question of the merit of art, but a question of spontaneity and sincerity and joy I say. I would like everybody in the world to tell his full life confession and tell it his own way and then we'd have something to read in our old age."
"Details are the Life of Prose."
"Parade my trouble in front of you guys? Make you realize that my heart is broken . . . that as long as I live I'll have chains dragging me down to the oceans of sad tears that my feet are wet in already."
"We are nothing. - Tomorrow we may be die. We are nothing. - You and me."
"...the tale that's told for no other reason but companionship, which is another (and my favorite) definition of literature, the tale that's told for companionship and to teach something religious, of religious reverence, about real life, in this real world which literature should (and here does) reflect."
"Between incomprehensible and incoherent sits the madhouse. I am not in the madhouse."
"Somewhere along the line, the pearl would be handed to me."