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- Love is kind of like when you see a fog in the morning, when you wake up before the sun comes out. It's just a…
- Writing is like going to bed with a beautiful woman and afterwards she gets up, goes to her purse and gives me a handful of…
- I got lost somehow, began staring up her legs. I was always a leg man. It was the first thing I saw when I was…
- and now sometimes I'm interviewed, they want to hear about life and literature and I get drunk and hold up my cross-eyed, shot, runover de-tailed…
- A man who can beat the horses can do anything he makes up his mind to do.
- We're all going to die, all of us, what a circus! That alone should make us love each other but it doesn't. We are terrorized…
- When you clean up a city, you destroy it.
- I sit here drunk now. I am a series of small victories and large defeats and I am as amazed as any other that I…
- 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…
- you've got to burn straight up and down and then maybe sidewise for a while and have your guts scrambled by a bully and the…
- The apartment was built at the edge of a high cliff so that when you looked out the back window it seemed as if you…
- I got up and walked back to my roominghouse. The moonlight was bright. My footsteps echoed in the empty street and it sounded as if…
- 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…
- There's nothing to mourn about death any more than there is to mourn about the growing of a flower. What is terrible is not death…
- That moment - to this ... may be years in the way they measure, but it's only one sentence back in my mind - there…
- i am with the roots of flowers entwined, entombed sending up my passionate blossoms as a flight of rockets and argument; wine churls my throat,…
- Writing is something that you don't know how to do. You sit down and it's something that happens, or it may not happen. So, how…
- After dinner or lunch or whatever it was -- with my crazy 12-hour night I was no longer sure what was what -- I said,…
- The dog approached again, cautiously. I found the bologna sandwich, ripped off a chunk, wiped the cheap watery mustard off, then placed it on the…
- I don't know about other people, but when I wake up in the morning and put my shoes on, I think, Jesus Christ, now what?
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