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"A lot of people are afraid of heights. Not me, I'm afraid of widths."
"How long most people would look at the best book before they would give the price of a large turbot for it?"
"I find that most people know what a story is until they sit down to write one."
"You've got to clock the hours and pay your dues. Then eventually, people will come to you. You have to be patient and appreciative."
"Intellectuals are people who believe that ideas are of more importance than values. That is to say, their own ideas and other people's values."
"We were too young to know better, and none of us were very aggressive people. It would have helped a lot if just one of us had been aggressive enough to say no."
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"The other guy I dug a lot was Burroughs because he was a smart man already; he learned it through the druggie pool - the street scene of an old aristocratic kind of man."
"Now, twenty years old, I come out and I go back to Greenwich Village. Now, of course, I'm a wealthy man."
"Anyway, I lived on the streets and did pretty good until I got caught stealing, what was it? I kicked in a restaurant window, went in and took all the food that I wanted, and while coming out I was grabbed."
"I moved up over Lower East Side and I was adopted by eight foster parents; I lived all over New York City with these parents, man, till I was about ten years old."
"My father went into the armed service and I never saw my mother - I don't know what happened to her."
"I remember the people I knew in prison; I was very fortunate to know them - they came from 1910, 1920, 1930."
"I was what? - twelve years old - and I was thrown in the cells with these people, so I learned fast."
"They, that unnamed "they," they've knocked me down but I got up. I always get up-and I swear when I went down quite often I took the fall; nothing moves a mountain but itself. They, I've long ago named them me."
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