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"It's so easy to be a poetand so hard to be a man."
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"Basically, that's why I wrote: to save my ass, to save my ass from the madhouse, from the streets, from myself."
"But then if you lied to a man about his talent just because he was sitting across from you, that was the most unforgivable lie of them all, because that was telling him to go on, to continue which was the worst way for a man without real talent to waste his life, finally. But many people did just that, friends and relatives mostly."
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