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- the best often die by their own hand just to get away, and those left behind can never quite understand why anybody would ever want…
- I went over to see Marina two or three or four times a week. I knew as long as I could see the girl I…
- Getting drunk was good. I decided that I would always like getting drunk. It took away the obvious and maybe if you could get away…
- I sit on the couch watching her arrange her long red hair before my bedroom mirror. she pulls her hair up and piles it on…
- from the beginning, through the middle years and up to the end: too bad, too bad, too bad.
- a good book can make an almost impossible existence, liveable ( from 'the luck of the word' )
- people run from rain but sit in bathtubs full of water.
- Censorship is the tool of those who have the need to hide actualities from themselves and from others. Their fear is only their inability to…
- My body gnaws at me from one side and my spirit gnaws at me from the other.
- t was almost disappointing because it seemed when stress and madness were eliminated from my daily life there wasn't much left you could depend on.
- Humanity, you never had it from the beginning." That was my motto.
- I had no interests. I had no interest in anything. I had no idea how I was going to escape. At least the others had…
- True revolution comes from true revulsion; when things get bad enough the kitten will kill the lion.
- Where did all the women come from? The supply was endless. Each one of them was individual, different. Their pussies were different, their kisses were…
- But then if you lied to a man about his talent just because he was sitting across from you, that was the most unforgivable lie…
- take a writer away from his typewriter and all you have left is the sickness which started him typing in the beginning
- I can almost understand why people leap from bridges.
- i never understood society. i undersand that it works somehow and that it functions as a reality and that its realities are necessary to keep…
- I have one problem, I don’t hate people. They disgust me and I want to get away from them. I do not have hatred. I…
- Dying in a a war never stopped wars from happening.
- It was too much. The comfortable people made comfortable jokes about weather and things but I sat mostly silent saying a word or so when…
- The girls looked good from a distance, the sun shining through their dresses, their hair. But get up close and listen to their minds running…
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