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Learning to let go should be learned before learning to get. Life should be touched, not strangled. You’ve got to relax, let it happen at times, and a...more

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So few want to be rebels anymore. And out of those few, most, like myself, scare easily.

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Science fiction is any idea that occurs in the head and doesn't exist yet, but soon will, and will change everything for everybody, and nothing will e...more

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The great fun in my life has been getting up every morning and rushing to the typewriter because some new idea has hit me.

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I'm afraid of them and they don't like me because I'm afraid.

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Insane people give me hope.""What!!!!" I almost dropped my beer."The insane have decided to stay on," Crumley said. "They love life so much that, rath...more

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You knew the sweetness of now, now, TONIGHT! who cares for tomorrow, tomorrow is nothing, yesterday is over and done, tonight live, tonight!

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Look at it this way, child, life is a magic show, or should be if people didn't go to sleep on each other. Always leave folks with a bit of mystery, s...more

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Strange. Half my years afraid of life. The other half, afraid of death. Always some kind of afraid.

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I was a crazy creature with a head full of carnival spangles until I was thirty, and then the only man I ever really cared for stopped waiting and mar...more

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I'm afraid of them and they don't like mebecause I'm afraid.

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Don’t look to be saved in any one thing, person, machine, or library. Do your own bit of saving, and if you drown, at least die knowing you were heade...more

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I just want someone to hear what I have to say. And maybe if I talk long enough, it’ll make sense.

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But that's the wonderful thing about man; he never gets so discouraged or disgusted that he gives up doing it all over again, because he knows very we...more

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And a lot of it will be wrong, but just enough of it will be right.