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"You can read everybody. It's not even interesting to tell the truth because to some extent it's false."
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"Nothing will shake a man-or at any rate a man like me-out of his merely verbal thinking and his merely notional beliefs. He has to be knocked silly before he comes to his senses. Only torture will bring out the truth. Only under torture does he discover it himself."

"There are certain truths that occurs to us, which we cannot convey in words, but requires a personal experience to grasp more vividly."

"My truth could be very different than your truth."

"There is no failure in life. It is only an experience."
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"You can do anything, literally, right? That's one of the exciting possibilities of the present."


"You don't help people in your poems. I've been trying to help people all my life - that's my trouble."
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