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"Music is much like fucking, but some composers can't climax and others climax too often, leaving themselves and the listener jaded and spent."
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"I write to express my love for the humanity."

"It's so easy to be a poetand so hard to be a man."

"The thing that I fear discriminating against is humor and truth."

"Stars don't need words to be heard, their beauty speaks for them."

"Dance to the music of your soul."

"Life is a sacred story."

"Writing is all about self-expression, we want to speak up, to get it off our chest. Whether we make an impact or not that is not for us to decide."

"Never be afraid to share your story. No one can tell it like you can."

"With a painter's temperament, all that's needed are the means of expression sufficient to be intelligible to the wide public."

"Perhaps in actions I'm less of a man - but, oh the words - such lovely words..."
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"I was glad I wasn't in love, that I wasn't happy with the world. I like being at odds with everything. People in love often become edgy, dangerous. They lose their sense of perspective. They lose their sense of humor. They become nervous, psychotic bores. They even become killers."


"You've got to know when to let a woman go if you want to keep her,and if you don't want to keep her you let her go anyhow so it's always a process of letting go, one way or the other."


"Don't be like so many writers,don't be like so many thousands ofpeople who call themselves writers,don't be dull and boring andpretentious, don't be consumed with self-love.the libraries of the world haveyawned themselves tosleepover your kind.don't add to that.don't do it."


"Basically, that's why I wrote: to save my ass, to save my ass from the madhouse, from the streets, from myself."
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