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- I would certainly end up forever crying the blues into a coffee cup in a park for old men playing chess or silly games of…
- I never met another man I'd rather be. And even if that's a delusion, it's a lucky one.
- I was a man who thrived on solitude; without it I was like another man without food or water. Each day without solitude weakened me.…
- That was all a man needed: hope. It was lack of hope that discouraged a man.
- I remembered my New Orleans days, living on two five-cent candy bars a day for weeks at a time in order to have leisure to…
- There were always men looking for jobs in America. There were always all these usable bodies. And I wanted to be a writer. Almost everybody…
- 2 p.m. beer nothing matters but flopping on a mattress with cheap dreams and a beer as the leaves die and the horses die and…
- pull a string, a puppet moves ... each man must realize that it can all disappear very quickly: the cat, the woman, the job, the…
- I like to change liquor stores frequently because the clerks got to know your habits if you went in night and day and bought huge…
- beware the average man the average woman beware their love, their love is average seeks average but there is genius in their hatred there is…
- Many a good man has been put under the bridge by a woman.
- A woman must be nursed into subsistence by love, where a man can become stronger by being hated." - from 'Cows in Art Class
- Sweet Christ, you must know that a man will go further for any poem than for any woman ever born.
- He asked, "What makes a man a writer?" "Well," I said, "it's simple. You either get it down on paper, or jump off a bridge.
- Christmas poem to a man in jail hello Bill Abbott: I appreciate your passing around my books in jail there, my poems and stories. if…
- alone with everybody the flesh covers the bone and they put a mind in there and sometimes a soul, and the women break vases against…
- Sometimes a man doesn’t know what to do about things and sometimes it’s best to lie very still and try not to think at all…
- What a woman wants is a reaction. What a man wants is a woman.
- I think that everything should be made available to everybody, and I mean LSD, cocaine, codeine, grass, opium, the works. Nothing on earth available to…
- I've found out why men sign their names to their works- not that they created them but more than the others did not.
- 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…
- The street to my left was backed up with traffic and I watched the people waiting patiently in the cars. There was almost always a…
- When I was young I was depressed all the time. But suicide no longer seemed a possibility in my life. At my age there was…
- 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…
- I like women who haven’t lived with too many men. I don’t expect virginity but I simply prefer women who haven’t been rubbed raw by…
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- Wherever the relevance of speech is at stake, matters become political by definition, for speech is what makes man a political being. — Hannah Arendt
- The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are… — Hannah Arendt
- Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is always won in… — Hannah Arendt
- Flattery and deceit are the darlings of great men, and so with these men spread the butter on thick, if you want… — Pietro Aretino
- I am a free man. I do not need to copy Petrarca or Boccaccio. My own genius is enough. Let others worry… — Pietro Aretino
- Let each man exercise the art he knows. — Aristophanes
- A man's homeland is wherever he prospers. — Aristophanes
- Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of… — Aristophanes
- My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake. — Aristotle
- Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers. — Aristotle
- At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst. — Aristotle
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle