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"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."
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"When men make themselves into brutes it is just to treat them like brutes."
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"Nothing is poetical if plain daylight is not poetical; and no monster should amaze us if the normal man does not amaze."
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"A man ought to read just as inclination leads him, for what he reads as a task will do him little good."
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"I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act."
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"Whoever has provoked men to rage against him has always gained a party in his favor, too."
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"Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by blocking his retreat."
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"No man may make another free."
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"Fable is more historical than fact, because fact tells us about one man and fable tells us about a million men."
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"That was not what men and women fought for during the war."
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"The only security men can have for their political liberty, consists in keeping their money in their own pockets."
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"I moved up over Lower East Side and I was adopted by eight foster parents; I lived all over New York City with these parents, man, till I was about ten years old."
Man
"Now, twenty years old, I come out and I go back to Greenwich Village. Now, of course, I'm a wealthy man."
Man
"I remember the people I knew in prison; I was very fortunate to know them - they came from 1910, 1920, 1930."
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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."
Nothing
"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
"I just trust people and they sense everything's gonna be alright."
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"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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"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 was what? - twelve years old - and I was thrown in the cells with these people, so I learned fast."
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"The lucky thing was that I was Italian; when the other Italians saw me fight back, they came to my defence."
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