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• Listen closely. There’s a remote possibility that you might learn something: First, I don’t give a damn if my work is commercial…
• So what’s the use of repentance, and what do you care for goodness, and what if you should die in a quake,…
• So it happened at last: I was about to become a thief, a cheap milk-stealer. Here was your lash-in-the-pen genius, your one…
• Well, this is good for me, this is experience, I am here for a reason, these moments run into pages, the seamy…
• For your information, a good novel can change the world. Keep that in mind before you attempt to sit down at a…
• Sick in my soul I tried to face the ordeal of seeking forgiveness. From whom? What God, what Christ? They were myths…
• We talked, she and I. She asked about my work and it was a pretense, she was not interested in my work.…
• Los Angeles, give me some of you! Los Angeles come to me the way I came to you, my feet over your…
• It was a bad one, the Winter of 1933. Wading home that night through flames of snow, my toes burning, my ears…
• I have wanted women whose very shoes are worth all I have ever possessed.
• One night I was sitting on the bed in my hotel room on Buker Hill, down in the middle of Los Angeles.…
• Ah, Los Angeles! Dust and fog of your lonely streets, I am no longer lonely. Just you wait, all of you ghosts…

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