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So where do you go? Back to the bottle And back to a tiny room somewhere. And wait. And wait, and wait. That's all.

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we know God is dead, they’ toldus, but listening to you I wasn’ sure. maybeit was the upper case. you were one of thebest female poets and I told the ...more

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Ya got cigarettes?” she asks. “Yes,” I say,“I got cigarettes.” “Matches?” she asks.“Enough to burn Rome.” “Whiskey?”“Enough whiskey for a Mississippi ...more

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I canalmost understandwhypeopleleapfrombridges.

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Getting drunk was good. I decided that I would always like getting drunk. It took away the obvious and maybe. If you could get away from the obvious o...more

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Drinking is an emotional thing. It joggles you out of the standardism of everyday life, out of everything being the same. It yanks you out of your bod...more

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There's no point in writing my kind of stuff, when they're printing that kind of stuff. So I gave up and started drinking.

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Why does a man destroy himself or what destroys him? I would have to judge that suicide is mostly the tool of the thinking man. The right to suicide s...more

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Frankly, I was horrified by life, at what a man had to do simply in order to eat, sleep, and keep himself clothed. So I stayed in bed and drank. When ...more

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I needed a vacation. I needed 5 women. I needed to get the wax out of my ears. My car needed an oil change. I'd failed to file my damned income tax. O...more

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When I was young I was depressed all the time. But suicide no longer seemed a possibility in my life. At my age there was very little left to kill. It...more

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I like to change liquor stores frequently because the clerks got to know your habits if you went in night and day and bought huge quantities. I could ...more

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it does seemthe more we drinkthe better the wordsgo.

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one doesn't even think ofthe liverand if the liverdoesn't think ofus, that'sfine.