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- I could see the road ahead of me. I was poor and I was going to stay poor. But I didn't particularly want money. I…
- Slavery was never abolished, it was only extended to include all the colors.
- There's nothing to stop a man from writing unless that man stops himself. If a man truly desires to write, then he will. Rejection and…
- You can forgive a fool because he only runs in one direction and doesn't deceive anybody. It's the deceivers who make you feel bad.
- To not to have entirely wasted one’s life seems to be a worthy accomplishment, if only for myself.
- Human relationships didn't work anyhow. Only the first two weeks had any zing, then the participants lost their interest. Masks dropped away and real people…
- I loved you like a man loves a woman he never touches, only writes to, keeps little photographs of.
- there's a bluebird in my heart that wants to get out but I'm too clever, I only let him out at night sometimes when everybody's…
- I remember when each 4th lot was vacant and overgrown, and the landlord only go this rent when you had it, and each day was…
- we only asked for leopards to guard our thinning dreams.
- I once lay in a white hospital for the dying and the dying self, where some god pissed a rain of reason to make things…
- I could scream down 90 mountains to less than dust if only one living human had eyes in the head and heart in the body,…
- If you are going to try, go all the way or don't even start. If you follow it you will be alive with the gods.…
- my youth, one time, that time I knew even through the nothingness, it was a celebration of something not to do but only know.
- 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…
- I was only kidding about the hundred," she says. oh," I say, "what will it cost me?" she lights her cigarette with my lighter and…
- I only want sweet peace and kindliness when I awaken -- but there's always some finger pointing, telling me some terrible deed I committed during…
- It was like a church in there as only the truly lost sit in bars on Tuesday mornings at 8:00 a.m.
- When I begin to doubt my ability to work the word, I simply read another writer and know I have nothing to worry about. My…
- There are only two things wrong with money: too much or too little.
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