You Get So Alone at Times That it Just Makes Sense

“sometimes it's hard to know what to do.”

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“the gods seldom give but so quickly take.”

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“I paid, got up, walked to the door, opened it. I heard the man say, "that guy's nuts." out on the street I walked north feeling curiously honored.”

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“the gods play no favorites.”

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“regret is mostly caused by not having done anything.”

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“when we were kids laying around the lawn on our bellies we often talked about how we'd like to die and we all agreed on the same thing; we'd all like to die fucking (although none of us had done any fucking) and now that we are hardly kids any longer we think more about how not to die and although we're ready most of us would prefer to do it alone under the sheets now that most of us have fucked our lives away.”

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“the world is better without them. only the plants and the animals are true comrades. I drink to them and with them.”

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“when you're young a pair of female high-heeled shoes just sitting alone in the closet can fire your bones; when you're old it's just a pair of shoes without anybody in them and just as well.”

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“sometimes all we need to be able to continue alone are the dead rattling the walls that close us in.”

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“as long as there are human beings about there is never going to be any peace for any individual upon this earth (or anywhere else they might escape to). all you can do is maybe grab ten lucky minutes here or maybe an hour there. something is working toward you right now, and I mean you and nobody but you.”

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“the worst thing," he told me, "is bitterness, people end up so bitter.”

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“I see a bright portion under the overhead light that shades into darkness and then into darker darkness and I can't see beyond that.”

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“it is so dark now with the sadness of people they were tricked, they were taught to expect the ultimate when nothing is promised now young girls weep alone in small rooms old men angrily swing their canes at visions as ladies comb their hair as ants search for survival history surrounds us and our lives slink away in shame.”

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“I didn't know who to believe but one thing I do know: when a man is living many claim relationships that are hardly so and after he dies, well, then it's everybody's party.”

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“we are burning like a chicken wing left on the grill of an outdoor barbecue we are unwanted and burning we are burning and unwanted we are an unwanted burning as we sizzle and fry to the bone the coals of Dante's 'Inferno' spit and sputter beneath us and above the sky is an open hand and the words of wise men are useless it's not a nice world, a nice world it's not ...”

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“she slammed the door and was gone. I looked at the closed door and at the doorknob and strangely I didn't feel alone.”

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“girls please give your bodies and your lives to the young men who deserve them besides there is no way I would welcome the intolerable dull senseless hell you would bring me and I wish you luck in bed and out but not in mine thank you.”

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“it does seem the more we drink the better the words go.”

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