"Don't think of words when you stop but to see picture better."
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"The Four Inevitabilities: 1. Musty Books. 2. Uninteresting Nature. 3. Dull Existence. 4. Blank Nirvana, buy that boy."
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"The details are the life of it, I insist, say everything on your mind, don’t hold back, don’t analyze or anything as you go along, say it out."
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"Marylou was watching Dean as she had watched him clear across the country and back, out of the corner of her eye--with a sullen, sad air, as though she wanted to cut off his head and hide it in her closet, an envious and rueful love of him so amazingly himself, all raging and sniffy and crazy-wayed, a smile of tender dotage but also sinister envy that frightened me about her, a love she knew would never bear fruit because when she looked at his hangjawed bony face with its male self-containment and absentmindedness she knew he was too mad."
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"The more ups and downs, the more joy I feel. The greater the fear, the greater the happiness I feel."
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"stick at it like a benni addict"
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"You can't fight City Hall. It keeps changing its name."
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"You don't realize what a strain it is on the nerves to write or think-of-writing all day long, and to sleep full of nervous dreams, and to wake up not knowing who one is: this all stems from anxiety about finishing the book, about time 'growing short', etc., and the perpetual strain of invention."
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"Always pull back-and see how silly we must look to God."
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"cliches are truisms and all truisms are true"
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"I mean, why on earth (outside sickness and hangovers) aren't people continually drunk? I want ecstasy of the mind all the time."
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"Her little shoulders drove me mad; I hugged her and hugged her. And she loved it. 'I love love,' she said, closing her eyes. I promised her beautiful love. I gloated over her. Our stories were told; we subsided into silence and sweet anticipatory thoughts. It was as simple as that. You could have all your Peaches and Bettys and Marylous and Ritas and Camilles and Inezes in this world; this was my girl and my kind of girlsoul, and I told her that."
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"I felt the sensation of each of the directions I mentally and emotionally turned into amazed at all the possible directions you can take with different motives that come in like it can make you a different person — I’ve often thought of this since childhood of suppose instead of going up Columbus as I usually did I’d turn into Filbert would something happen that at the time is insignificant enough but would be like enough to influence my whole life in the end? — What’s in store for me in the direction I don’t take?"
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"I'd better be a poet Or lay down dead."
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"I was amazed by the fact that I was not the only writer living, not the only young man "with a locomotive in his chest, and that's a fact," not the only youth with a million hungers and not one of them appeasable, not the only one who is lonely among multitudes, and does not know why."
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"Absolutely no way to escape enigmans."
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"It's only through form that we can realize emptiness"
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"beautiful insane in the rain"
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"I like it because its ugly"
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"For the first time in my life the weather was not something that touched me, that caressed me, froze or sweated me, but became me."
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