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"Because of pain you feel more and so you live more."
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"The slightest pain that we have, is the reaction of the pain that we had given. So do what you find comfortable."
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"One man may shoot himself in the forehead with a .38 and wake up in the hospital. Another may shoot himself in the forehead with a .22 and wake up in hell...if there is such a place. I tend to believe it's here on earth, possibly in New Jersey."
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"You are never more alive than when you are enraptured by pain."
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"The only thing worse than having a party that no one attends is having a party attended only by two vastly, deeply uninteresting people."
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"Today I was rejected......I hate being rejected... SAYYYYYYYYYY MY FUCKING NAME "Bill"."
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"They who go Feel not the pain of parting; it is they Who stay behind that suffer."
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"There's wall of agony between dreams and reality."
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"Maybe you receive pain selfishly - thinking only of yourself. The cycle of pain wounds every participant, both victim and aggressor."
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"What will break me into a million pieces so that I am beyond repair, beyond usefulness?"
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"You write a book and you hope somebody will go out and pay $24.95 for what you've just said. I think books were my salvation. Books saved me from being miserable."
Hope
"She said 'I'm by commission. You don't have to pay anything until you sell anything.' I said, 'Well fine. You want to be my agent and not make anything.' I thought, 'Boy, is she dumb.'"
Thought
"I would still like to have that luxury, to be able to just sit and draw for hours and hours and hours. In a way, that's what I do as a writer."
Writing
"I read a book a day when I was a kid. My family was not literary; we did not have any books in the house."
Family
"I loved fairy tales when I was a kid. Grimm. The grimmer the better. I loved gruesome gothic tales and, in that respect, I liked Bible stories, because to me they were very gothic."
Bible
"Placing on writers the responsibility to represent a culture is an onerous burden."
Burden
"I did not lose myself all at once. I rubbed out my face over the years washing away my pain, the same way carvings on stone are worn down by water."
Pain
"The forbidden things were a great influence on my life. I was forbidden from reading A Catcher in the Rye."
Life
"Words to me were magic. You could say a word and it could conjure up all kinds of images or feelings or a chilly sensation or whatever. It was amazing to me that words had this power."
Power
"I didn't fear failure. I expected failure."
Fear
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