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"She was perfect, pure maddening sex, and she knew it, and she played on it, dripped it, and allowed you to suffer for it."
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"A wolf can only mock a lion thousands of miles away."

"Only when the lion is out of sight can you raise your fist at him."

"Your mind is a weapon. Your heart is an asset. Your soul is a treasure. Your life is a jewel."

"One who has great love has great power."

"An angry wife can be more frightening than an army of disgruntled soldiers."

"Three things will make you more powerful: the power of your non-judgmental love, your ability to forgive the unforgivable, and a heart that cares."
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"I would be married, but I'd have no wife, I would be married to a single life."


"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."


"What is your advice to young writers? "Drink, fuck and smoke plenty of cigarettes."


"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."


"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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