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You know,” he laughed easily, “with all the goddam drinkin’ Ah’ve done, Ah still can’t remember the taste of it unless Ah got the bottle right with me.
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Listen my love the hour is late my side has an ache If you don't get a taxi my heart will break
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The Anti-Semiten. Why don’t they ever learn? Why does God permit it?” Roth sneered. “God is a luxury I don’t give myself.
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I HATE EVERYTHING WHICH IS NOT IN MYSELF
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American’s capacity for real estate improvement; build yourself a house, grow fat in it, and die.
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If men could move out of infancy at half a mile an hour and get up to eighteen thousand miles an hour in one lifetime, well, who was to assume that the walls of the universe were safe from future men?
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Then comes the left jab again. A converted southpaw? It has something of the shift of locus which comes from making love to a brunette when she is wearing a blond wig.
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Perhaps the measure of the best art is that it does not excite envy.
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Certain kinds of honor could not be lost without demanding that one consecrate oneself thereafter—no matter how unsuited and unprepared—to a life of revenge. I
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There is something silly about a man who wears a white suit all the time, especially in New York." (on Tom Wolfe)
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...the Waldorf looked like one of the dead and empty spaces which collect about the exit of a man who has lost a million in an hour.
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I could not begin to mourn Deborah or my mind would ride off with me. There was nothing so delicate in all the world as one's last touch of control.
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Goldstein, you'd be a pretty good boy if you wasn't so chicken.
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Rip the prisons open put the convicts on television
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The feeling of joy came up in me again the way the lyric of a song might remind a man on the edge of insanity that soon he will be insane again and there is a world there more interesting than his own.
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It takes all kinds to make a world.
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His decision had been made in the valley, and it lay as an iron warp in his mind. He could have turned back no more easily than he could have killed himself.
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Just as a fighter has to feel that he possesses the right to do physical damage to another man, so a writer has to be ready to take chances with his readers’ lives.
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Yank! Yank! We you come to get Yank. We you come to get.
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The Irish are the only men who know how to cry for the dirty polluted blood of all the world.
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How his hatred seethed in search of a justifiable excuse.
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At the end of medicine is dope; at the end of life is death; at the end of man may be the Hell which arrives from the vanities of the mind.
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A fire had begun to spread in me. It was burning now in my stomach and my lungs were dry as old leaves, my heart had a herded pressure which gave promise to explode.
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Kerouac lacks discipline, intelligence, honesty and a sense of the novel. His rhythms are erratic, his sense of character is nil, and he is as pretentious as a rich whore, sentimental as a lollypop.
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So you come soon to power, but you have merely inherited the crisis and yours is the profit of cancer.
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In the South of Spain, one could look to vice as quickly as to virtue for a sense of tradition.
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Men who work at Time have a life expectancy which is not long said the young man from Newsweek
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So long as you use a knife, there's some love left.
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It is easy to comprehend people who are weaker than ourselves, but it is not as simple to be ready for the true feelings of those more powerful.
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Every time I move I squash something said Loathesome.
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The moments like these, the passing doubts, were the temptations that caught you if you were not careful.
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I cannot bear that chirpy Bobby Kennedy, always building his beaver's nest with a few more facts. He needs to look into the abyss.
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Prevarication, like honesty, is reflexive, and soon becomes a sturdy habit, as reliable as truth.
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...and dread came back like a hoot from a bully on the street outside.
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I wonder, said the Lord I wonder if I know the answer any more.
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There are many churches in my name and in the name of my apostles. The greatest and holiest is named after Peter; it is a place of great splendor in Rome. Nowhere can be found more gold.
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Tough guys don't dance. You had better believe it.
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Faction is that hybrid of documented fact and novelistic elaboration.
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That was how the tears went down Cherry's face...a teaspoon full of ten years' sorrow.
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The jeep would round the bend, be hit by a dozen bullets at once, and that would be the end of his petty history of unfocused groping and unimportant dissatisfactions.
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Poems should be like pins which prick the skin of boredom and leave a glow equal in its pride to the gate of the sadist who stuck the pin and walked away
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The function of socialism is to raise suffering to a higher level.
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Love was love, one could find it with anyone, one could find it anywhere. It was just that you could never keep it. Not unless you were ready to die for it.
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When the time comes, they won't ask what kind of a Jew you are.
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I am not here only so that the blind might see, but to teach those who thought they could see that they are blind
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The more things you own, the more things you need to keep you comfortable.
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Yeah, fighting a war to fix something works about as good as going to a whorehouse to get rid of a clap.
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No heart is so hard as the timid heart.

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