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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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the lies of centuries, the lies of love,the lies of Socrates and Blake and Christwill be your bedmates and tombstonesin a death that will never end.

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

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good weatheris likegood women—it doesn’t always happenand when it doesit doesn’talways last.

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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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When women agree with me I always do the other thing

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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 killed four flies while waiting. Damn, death was everywhere. Man, bird, beast, reptile, rodent, insect, fish didn't have a chance. The fix was in. I...more