"You women have more holes than swiss cheese.












We don’t even ask happiness, just a little less pain.
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"If you have the ability to love, love yourself first.
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"Yes Yeswhen God created love he didn't help most when God created dogs He didn't help dogs when God created plants that was average when God created h...
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"and our few good times will be rare because we have the critical senseand are not easy to fool with laughter
"Ya got cigarettes?” she asks. “Yes,” I say,“I got cigarettes.” “Matches?” she asks.“Enough to burn Rome.” “Whiskey?”“Enough whiskey for a Mississippi ...
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"where some god pissed a rain of reason to make things grow only to die,
"Basically, that's why I wrote: to save my ass, to save my ass from the madhouse, from the streets, from myself.
"my mother, poor fish,wanting to be happy, beaten two or three times aweek, telling me to be happy: "Henry, smile!why don't you ever smile?"and then sh...
"I have one problem, I don’t hate people. They disgust me and I want to get away from them. I do not have hatred. I have an escape mechanism.