"It all ends in tears anyway."
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"I looked up at the dark sky and prayed to God for a better break in life and a better chance to do something for the little people I loved."
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"I don't know, I don't care, and it doesn't make any difference."
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"Suppose we suddenly wake up and see that what we thought to be this and that, ain't this and that at all?"
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"Better to sleep in an uncomfortable bed free, than sleep in a comfortable bed unfree."
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"Desolation, desolation, I owe so much to desolation."
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"Lying mouth to mouth, kiss to kiss in the pillow dark, loin to loin in unbelievable surrendering sweetness so distant from all our mental fearful abstractions it makes you wonder why men have termed God antisexual somehow (p. 148)"
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"Because he had no place he could stay in without getting tired of it and because there was nowhere to go but everywhere, keep rolling under the stars."
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"Let the mind beware, that though the flesh be bugged, the circumstances of existence are pretty glorious."
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"I realized that I had died and been reborn numberless times but just didn't remember because the transitions from life to death and back are so ghostly easy, a magical action for naught, like falling asleep and waking up again a million times, the utter casualness and deep ignorance of it."
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"I'll go to the south of Sicily in the winter, and paint memories of Arles – I'll buy a piano and Mozart me that – I'll write long sad tales about people in the legend of my life – This part is my part of the movie, let's hear yours"
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"I spent my entire youth writing slowly with revisions and endless rehashing speculation and deleting and got so I was writing one sentence a day and the sentence had no FEELING. Goddamn it, FEELING is what I like in art, not CRAFTINESS and the hiding of feelings."
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"Holding up my purring cat to the moon. I sighed."
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"It’s a sort of furtiveness … Like we were a generation of furtive. You know, with an inner knowledge there’s no use flaunting on that level, the level of the ‘public’, a kind of beatness – I mean, being right down to it, to ourselves, because we all really know where we are – and a weariness with all the forms, all the conventions of the world … It’s something like that. So I guess you might say we’re a beat generation."
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"The whole mad swirl of everything that was to come began then."
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"Something that you feel will find its own form."
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"The beauty of things must be that they end."
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"So long and take it easy, because if you start taking things seriously, it is the end of you."
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"I'm right there, swimming the river of hardships but I know how to swim."
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"It’s not that I can’t fall in love. It’s really that I can’t help falling in love with too many things all at once. So, you must understand why I can’t distinguish between what’s platonic and what isn’t, because it’s all too much and not enough at the same time."
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