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It’s nice enough to make a man weep, but I don’t weep, do you?
When a hot woman meets a hermit one of them is going to change.
I pretend to understand because I don't want anybody to be hurt
A woman is a full time job. You have to choose your profession.
A day of minor profit or prophet led to a night of drunkenness.
Capitalism has survived communism. Now, it eats away at itself.
I don't remember going to bed, but in the morning, there I was.
The thing that I fear discriminating against is humor and truth.
The writing's easy, it's the living that is sometimes difficult.
there's no chance at all: we are all trapped by a singular fate.
A woman has to have something on or there's nothing to take off.
I'm going, she said. I love you but you're crazy, you're doomed.
writing about a writer's block is better than not writing at all
Let it die. Let there be a new beginning. It’s awful. Goodnight.
it is all ash and dry leaves and grief gone like an ocean liner.
The Difference Between Art and Life is that Art is More Bearable
Real loneliness is not necessarily limited to when you are alone.
mercy, I think, doesn't the human race know anything about mercy?
Beware of those who seek constant crowds; they are nothing alone.
I made practice runs down to skid row to get ready for my future.
In my work, as a writer, I only photograph, in words, what I see.
stay with the beer. beer is continuous blood. a continuous lover.
we had such tremendous fun and much agony together for some years
Those who have been writing literature have not been writing life.
Humanity, you never had it from the beginning." That was my motto.
That's what friendship means: sharing the prejudice of experience.
I could read the great books but the great books don't interest me.
Things will be far worse than they are now. And far better. I wait.
Success is always dangerous. It can make an asshole out of anybody.
There are only two things wrong with money: too much or too little.
Don't ever write a novel unless it hurts like a hot turd coming out.
Morals were restrictive, but they were grounded on human experience.
not writing is not good but trying to write when you can't is worse.
If you're going to try, go all the way. Otherwise, don't even start.
It's possible to love a human being if you don't know them too well.
There are times when those eyes inside your brain stare back at you.
Genius might be the ability to say a profound thing in a simple way.
Long ago, among other lies they were taught that silence was bravery.
nothing can save you except writing. it keeps the walls from failing.
If I stop writing I am dead. And that's the only way I'll stop: dead.
magic persists without us no matter what we may do to try to spoil it
Some people never go crazy, What truly horrible lives they must live.
I am not like other people. I am burning in hell. The hell of myself.
Careful poetry and careful people live only long enough to die safely.
It is possible to be truly mad and to still exist upon scraps of life.
… and we are in bed together laughing and we don’t care about anything.
If you want to know who your friends are, get yourself a jail sentence.
I never pump up my vulgarity. I wait for it to arrive in its own terms.
If I have any advice to anybody it's this: take up watercolor painting.
Where some god pissed a rain of reason to make things grow only to die.