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I know a womanwho keeps buying puzzleschinesepuzzlesblockswirespieces that finally fitinto some order.she works it outmathmaticallyshe solves all herp...more

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you shoulda known the entirety of the trap, a**hole,love means eventual painvictory means eventual defeatgrace means eventual slovenliness,there's no ...more

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Once in a rare lifetime have you ever been in a roomful of people who only helped you when you looked at them, listened to them. this was one of those...more

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I have, he went on, betrayed myself withbelief, deluded myself with lovetricked myself with sex.the bottle is damned faithful, he said,the bottle will...more

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I like to prowl ordinary places.I feel sorry for us all or glad for us allcaught alive togetherand awkward in that way.there's nothing better than the...more

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waitingin a life full of little storiesfor a death to come

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for meobedience to another is the decayof self

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I care for you, darling, I love you,the only reason I fucked L. is because you fuckedZ. and then I fucked R. and you fucked N.and because you fucked N...more

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love needs too much help, he said.hate takes care of itself.

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I like to prowl ordinary placesand taste the people-from a distance.

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Whether I was a genius or not did not so much concern me as the fact that I simply did not want a part of anything. The animal-drive and energy of my ...more

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After dinner or lunch or whatever it was -- with my crazy 12-hour night I was no longer sure what was what -- I said, "Look, baby, I'm sorry, but don'...more

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Can you remember who you were, before the world told you who you should be?

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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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I'm not dead yet, just in a state of rapid decay, who isn't?