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- Money always ends up making you blue.
- I don't suppose a writing man ever really gets rid of his old crocus-yellow neckties. Sooner or later, I think, they show up in his…
- If I'd wanted this place to fill up with every fat Irish rose that passes by, I'd've said so.
- I'm up to my ears in unwritten words.
- But if we come back, if German men come back, if British men come back, and Japs, and French, and all the other men, all…
- Sex is something I really don't understand too hot. You never know where the hell you are. I keep making up these sex rules for…
- I have a feeling that you're riding for some kind of a terrible, terrible fall. But I don't honestly know what kind.... It may be…
- If Death stepped miraculously through the glass and came in after you, in all probability you just got up and went along with him, ferociously…
- A confessional passage has probably never been written that didn't stink a little bit of the writer's pride in having given up his pride.
- Almost every time somebody gives me a present, it ends up making me sad.
- What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific…
- Keep me up till five because all your stars are out, and for no other reason…Oh dare to do it Buddy! Trust your heart. You’re…
- My god, there's absolutely nothing tenth-rate about you, and yet you're up to your neck at this minute in tenth-rate thinking.
- This fall I think you're riding for—it's a special kind of fall, a horrible kind. The man falling isn't permitted to feel or hear himself…
- And I have one of those very loud, stupid laughs. I mean if I ever sat behind myself in a movie or something, I'd probably…
- If you're going to say the Jesus Prayer, at least say it to Jesus, and not to St. Francis and Seymour and Heidi's grandfather all…
- Give me a story that just makes me unreasonably vigilant. Keep me up till five only because all your stars are out, and for no…
- You know Sven? The man who takes care of the gym?' he asked. He waited till he got a nod from Nicholson. 'Well, if Sven…
- My brother Allie had this left-handed fielder's mitt. he was left handed. The thing that was descriptive about it though, was that he had poems…
- While I was walking I passed these two guys that were unloading this big Christmas tree off a truck. One guy, kept saying to the…
- The rest, with very little exaggeration, was books. Meant-to-be-picked-up books. Permanently-left-behind books. Uncertain-what-to-do-with books. But books, books. Tall cases lined three walls of the room,…
- How that name comes up. Mixing memory and desire
- Did you ever get fed up?' I said. 'I mean did you ever get scared that everything was going to go lousy unless you did…
- Lane himself lit a cigarette as the train pulled in. Then, like so many people, who, perhaps, ought to be issued only a very probational…
- Tilting his head back he slowly released an enormous quantity of smoke from his mouth and drew it up through his nostrils. He continued to…
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