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I would be married, but I'd have no wife, I would be married to a single life.

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Style is the answer to everything.A fresh way to approach a dull or dangerous thingTo do a dull thing with style is preferable to doing a dangerous th...more

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when Whitman wrote, “I sing the body electric”I know what hemeantI know what hewanted:to be completely alive every momentin spite of the inevitable.we...more

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I sat back down and poured a glass of wine. I left my door open. The moonlight came in with the sounds of the city: juke boxes, automobiles, curses, d...more

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there are so many dayswhen living stops and pulls up and sitsand waits like a train on the rails.

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I'm not a guru. I wish you wouldn't pose these things at me, man. Ask me about women or something.

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if you are going to try, go all the way.. Otherwise, don’t even start.. If you are going to try, go all the way.. This could mean losing girlfriends, ...more

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Some people never go crazy, what truly horrible lives they must live.

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The factories, the jails, the drunken days and nights, the hospitals have weakened and shaken me like a mouse in the mouth of a hip-cat: life.- from a...more

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You understand, we just don't fuck with truth.

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Hey, Hank, I notice all the women around your place lately ... good looking stuff; you're doing all right.""Sam," I say, "that's not true; I am one of...more

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I heard an airplane passing overhead. I wished I was on it.

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I write poetry, worry, smile,laughsleepcontinue for a whilejust like most of usjust like all of us;sometimes I want to hug allMankind on earthand say,...more

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DEATH COMES SLOWLY LIKE ANTS TO A FALLEN FIG

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Sometimes things are just what they seem to be and that's all there is to it.