“I wish to weep but sorrow is stupid. I wish to believe but belief is a graveyard.”
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“I wish to weep but sorrow is stupid. I wish to believe but belief is a graveyard.”
“People are strange: They are constantly angered by trivial things, but on a major matter like totally wasting their lives, they hardly seem to notice.”
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“Can you remember who you were, before the world told you who you should be?”
“girls please give your bodies and your lives to the young men who deserve them besides there is no way I would welcome the intolerable dull senseless hell you would bring me and I wish you l...”
“I heard an airplane passing overhead. I wished I was on it.”
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“when we were kids laying around the lawn on our bellies we often talked about how we'd like to die and we all agreed on the same thing; we'd all like to die fucking (although none of us had...”
“having nothing to struggle against they have nothing to struggle for.”
“It was like the beginning of life and laughter. It was the real meaning of the sun”
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“The nights you fight best are when all the weapons are pointed at you, when all the voices hurl their insults while the dream is being strangled. The nights you fight best are when reason ge...”
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“be it peace or happiness let it enfold you”
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“Sometimes you just have to pee in the sink.”
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“Yes Yes when 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 hate we had a standard utility when God...”
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“What is your advice to young writers?” “Drink, fuck and smoke plenty of cigarettes.”
“To me, nudity is a joke. I don't think nude people are very attractive at all. I like my women fully clothed. I like to imagine what might be under there. It might not be the standard thing....”
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“Nothing was ever in tune. People just blindly grabbed at whatever there was: communism, health foods, zen, surfing, ballet, hypnotism, group encounters, orgies, biking, herbs, Catholicism, w...”
“All right, God, say that You are really there. You have put me in this fix. You want to test me. Suppose I test You? Suppose I say that You are not there? You've given me a supreme test with...”
“the gods play no favorites.”
“the gods seldom give but so quickly take.”
“Beasts bounding through time. Van Gogh writing his brother for paints Hemingway testing his shotgun Celine going broke as a doctor of medicine the impossibility of being human Villon expelle...”
“Turgenev was a very serious fellow but he could make me laugh because a truth first encountered can be very funny. When someone else's truth is the same as your truth, and he seems to be say...”