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- Many people I know in Los Angeles believe that the Sixties ended abruptly on August 9, 1969, ended at the exact moment when word of…
- Life changes fast. Life changes in the instant. You sit down to dinner and life as you know it ends.
- Grammar is a piano I play by ear. All I know about grammar is its power.
- I think we are well advised to keep on nodding terms with the people we used to be, whether we find them attractive company or…
- I know why we try to keep the dead alive: we try to keep them alive in order to keep them with us. I also…
- I know something about dread myself, and appreciate the elaborate systems with which some people fill the void, appreciate all the opiates of the people,…
- I was supposed to have a script, and had mislaid it. I was supposed to hear cues, and no longer did. I was meant to…
- One thing in my defense, not that it matters: I know something Carter never knew, or Helene, or maybe you. I know what "nothing" means,…
- I don't know what I think until I write it down.
- I know why we try to keep the dead alive: we try to keep them alive in order to keep them with us.
- We imagined we knew everything the other thought, even when we did not necessarily want to know it, but in fact, I have come to…
- Vanish. Pass into nothingness: the Keats line that frightened her. Fade as the blue nights fade, go as the brightness goes. Go back into the…
- I know what "nothing" means, and keep on playing.
- I know what the fear is. The fear is not for what is lost. What is lost is already in the wall. What is lost…
- When I went to San Francisco in that cold late spring of 1967, I did not even know what I wanted to find out, and…
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