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- Dream golf is simply golf played on another course. We chip from glass tables onto moving stairways; we swing in a straightjacket, through masses of…
- Bankruptcy is a sacred state, a condition beyond conditions, as theologians might say, and attempts to investigate it are necessarily obscene, like spiritualism. One knows…
- In asking forgiveness of women for our mythologizing of their bodies, for being unreal about them, we can only appeal to their own sexuality, which…
- Sex is like money; only too much is enough.
- My only duty was to describe reality as it had come to me-to give the mundane its beautiful due.
- Being on TV is like being alive, only more so.
- I would especially like to re-court the Muse of poetry, who ran off with the mailman four years ago, and drops me only a scribbled…
- Do what the heart commands. The heart is our only guide.
- The essential support and encouragement comes from within, arising out of the mad notion that your society needs to know what only you can tell…
- Existence itself does not feel horrible; it feels like an ecstasy, rather, which we have only to be still to experience.
- Hope bases vast premises upon foolish accidents and reads a word where, in fact, only a scribble exists.
- I like old men. They can be wonderful bastards because they have nothing to lose. The only people who can be themselves are babies and…
- My father taught only math.
- I find in my own writing that only fiction - and rarely, a poem - fully tests me to the kind of limits of what…
- My life is, in a sense, trash. My life is only that of which the residue is my writing.
- I was an only child. I needed an alternative to family life - to real life, you could almost say - and cartoons, pictures in…
- I feel old only when I look at my hands or at myself in the mirror.
- Authors should be honored only for their works.
- New York is a city with virtually no habitable public space - only private spaces expensively maintained within the general disaster.
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