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We have wasted History like a bunch of drunks shooting dice back in the men's crapper of the local bar.

Back Bar Bunch Dice
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There will always be something to ruin our lives, it all depends on what or which finds us first. We are always ripe and ready to be taken.

Always Depends Finds First
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If you want to know who your friends are, get yourself a jail sentence.

Friends Jail Know Sentence
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The difference between a democracy and a dictatorship is that in a democracy you vote first and take orders later; in a dictatorship you don't have to waste your time voting.

Between Democracy Dictatorship Difference
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The free soul is rare, but you know it when you see it - basically because you feel good, very good, when you are near or with them.

Basically Because Feel Free
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There are women who can make you feel more with their bodies and their souls, but these are the exact women who will turn the knife into you right in front of the crowd. Of course, I expect this, but the knife still cuts.

Bodies Course Crowd Cuts
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The female loves to play man against man. And if she is in a position to do it, there is not one who will resist.
Against Female Loves Man
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The male, for all his bravado and exploration, is the loyal one, the one who generally feels love. The female is skilled at betrayal and torture and damnation.

Betrayal Exploration Feels Female
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When I write, when I'm going hot, I don't want to write more than four hours in a row. After that, you're pushing it.

After Going Hot Hours
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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 and flattened by trivialities. We are eaten up by nothing.

Alone Circus Die Love
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I can relax with bums because I am a bum. I don't like laws, morals, religions, rules. I don't like to be shaped by society.

Society Shaped Rules Bum
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Somebody once asked me what my theory of life was, and I said, 'Don't try.' That fits the writing, too. I don't try; I just type.

Asked Fits Life Once
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The thing that I fear discriminating against is humor and truth.
Against Fear Humor Thing
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In my work, as a writer, I only photograph, in words, what I see.

Photograph Words Work Writer
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My days, my years, my life has seen up and downs, lights and darknesses. If I wrote only and continually of the 'light' and never mentioned the other, then as an artist, I would be a liar.

Artist Continually Liar Life
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Most poets are young simply because they have not been caught up. Show me an old poet, and I'll show you, more often than not, either a madman or a master... it's when you begin to lie to yourself in a poem in order simply to make a poem that you fail. That is why I do not rework poems.

BecausCaught Either Fail Master
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When I say that basically writing is a hard hustle, I don't mean that it is a bad life, if one can get away with it. It's the miracle of miracles to make a living by the typer.

Bad Basically Hard Hustle
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Sometimes I've called writing a disease. If so, I'm glad that it caught me.

Caught Disease Glad Sometimes
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It's when you begin to lie to yourself in a poem in order to simply make a poem, that you fail.

Begin Fail Lie Poem
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I kept writing not because I felt I was so good, but because I felt they were so bad, including Shakespeare, all those. The stilted formalism, like chewing cardboard.

Bad Cardboard Chewing Felt
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When everything works best, it's not because you chose writing but because writing chose you. It's when you're mad with it, it's when it's stuffed in your ears, your nostrils, under your fingernails. It's when there's no hope but that.

Best Chose Ears Everything
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I have no definite talent or trade, and how I stay alive is largely a matter of magic.

Alive Definite Largely Magic
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My love is a hummingbird sitting that quiet moment on the bough, as the same cat crouches.
Cat Love Moment Quiet
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Even though I write about the human race, the further away from them, the better I feel. Two miles is great; two thousand miles is beautiful.

Away Beautiful Better Feel
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I do not like the human race. I don't like their heads, I don't like their faces, I don't like their feet, I don't like their conversations, I don't like their hairdos, I don't like their automobiles.

Automobiles Conversations Faces Feet
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You can do without a woman but not a typewriter.
Typewriter Without Woman You
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We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us.

Death Laugh Live Lives
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A cat is only itself, representative of the strong forces of life that won't let go.

Strong Cat Forces Itself
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Those who have been writing literature have not been writing life.

Life Literature Those Writing
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Almost everybody is born a genius and buried an idiot.
Almost Born Buried Genius
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Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?

Ever First Loved Sight
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Goodness is beauty in the best estate.

Beauty Best Estate Goodness
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Money can't buy love, but it improves your bargaining position.

Bargaining Buy Improves Love
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Above our life we love a steadfast friend.
Above Friend Life Love
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All places are alike, and every earth is fit for burial.

Alike Burial Earth Every
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That perfect bliss and sole felicity, the sweet fruition of an earthly crown.

Bliss Crown Earthly Felicity
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O, thou art fairer than the evening air clad in the beauty of a thousand stars.

Art Beauty Stars Fairer
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Accursed be he that first invented war.

First Invented War Accursed
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I count religion but a childish toy, and hold there is no sin but ignorance.

Childish Count Hold Ignorance
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Hell hath no limits, nor is circumscribed In one self place, for where we are is hell, And where hell is there must we ever be.

Place Hath Hell Limits
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Come live with me and be my love, And we will all the pleasures prove, That valleys, groves, hills, and fields, Woods, or steepy mountain yields.

Fields Hills Live Love
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For man, as for flower and beast and bird, the supreme triumph is to be most vividly, most perfectly alive.

Alive Beast Bird Flower
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A man has no religion who has not slowly and painfully gathered one together, adding to it, shaping it; and one's religion is never complete and final, it seems, but must always be undergoing modification.

Complete Final Gathered Modification
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Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say what you've got to say, and say it hot.

Genuine Got Hot Moves
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But better die than live mechanically a life that is a repetition of repetitions.

Better Die Life Live
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Design in art, is a recognition of the relation between various things, various elements in the creative flux. You can't invent a design. You recognize it, in the fourth dimension. That is, with your blood and your bones, as well as with your eyes.

Art Blood Bones Creative
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Do not allow to slip away from you freedoms the people who came before you won with such hard knocks.

Allow Came Freedoms Hard
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Ethics and equity and the principles of justice do not change with the calendar.

Calendar Change Equity Ethics
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God how I hate new countries: They are older than the old, more sophisticated, much more conceited, only young in a certain puerile vanity more like senility than anything.

Certain Conceited Countries God
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How beautiful maleness is, if it finds its right expression.
Beautiful Expression Finds Right
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