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We don’t even ask happiness, just a little less pain.

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You women have more holes than swiss cheese.

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The ass is the face of the soul of sex.

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My heart is a thousand years old. I am not like other people.

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I walked around the library looking for books. I pulled them off the shelves, one by one. But they were all tricks. They were very dull. There were pa...more

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If you have the ability to love, love yourself first.

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I do think that poetry is important though, if you don’t strive at it, if you don’t fill it full of stars and falseness.

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

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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...more

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When I begin to doubt my ability to work the word, I simply read another writer and know I have nothing to worry about. My contest is only with myself...more

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take a writer away from his typewriterand all you have leftisthe sicknesswhich started himtypingin thebeginning

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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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Poetry is what happens when nothing else can.

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the impossibility of being humanall too humanthis breathingin and outout and inthese punksthese cowardsthese championsthese mad dogs of glorymoving th...more