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"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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"Nothing that you have not given away will ever be really yours."
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"As it is the characteristic of great wits to say much in few words, so small wits seem to have the gift of speaking much and saying nothing."
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"Since philosophy now criticizes everything it comes across, a critique of philosophy would be nothing less than a just reprisal."
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"There is nothing so difficult to marry as a large nose."
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"There is nothing so terrible as activity without insight."
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"Nothing very very good and nothing very very bad ever lasts for very very long."
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"Even if you have nothing to write, write and say so."
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"The best way to be boring is to leave nothing out."
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"Nothing endures but personal qualities."
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"There is nothing more imprudent than excessive prudence."
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"Now the Tombs, like the name says, are so horrible that they had to close it down. Today it doesn't exist and people go in the electric chair and all that."
People
"The lucky thing was that I was Italian; when the other Italians saw me fight back, they came to my defence."
Fight
"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."
Food
"My father took me back home, back to Greenwich Village, and he thought by taking me out of the orphanage he'd be out of the World War too. But no way - they got him anyway. He went in the Navy and then I lived on the streets."
War
"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."
Nothing
"Now, twenty years old, I come out and I go back to Greenwich Village. Now, of course, I'm a wealthy man."
Man
"I was what? - twelve years old - and I was thrown in the cells with these people, so I learned fast."
People
"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."
Man
"I remember the people I knew in prison; I was very fortunate to know them - they came from 1910, 1920, 1930."
People
"My father went into the armed service and I never saw my mother - I don't know what happened to her."
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