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"When someone else's truth is the same as your truth, and he seems to be saying it just for you, that's great."
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"God can only relate with us based on our level of knowledge."

"Every friend was once a stranger and if you know this, you have to understand that conversations are the beginning of connection."

"You may be born thousands of years from now, but over the boundaries of time I am sending you my love and wishing you a joyful and wonderful life."

"You can only see God when you notice people."

"You cannot reach God until you begin to pay attention to humans."

"It is better to hug than shake hands."

"Some of them profess to be well acquainted with all the principal waters of the Columbia, with which they assured me these waters had no connection short of the ocean."

"I imagine a line, a white line, painted on the sand and on the ocean, from me to you."

"In all our searching, the only thing we've found that makes the emptiness bearable is each other."

"As attorney general, I've had some connection with just about every important public issue in the last eight years in Kentucky. All of the important public issues of the day have, at some point."
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"The world is better withoutthem.only the plants and the animals aretrue comrades.I drink to them and withthem."


"All we do is sleep, and eat and lay around and make love. We're like slugs. Slug-love, I call it."


"My objection to war was not that I had to kill somebody or be killed senselessly, that hardly mattered. What I objected to was to be denied the right to sit in a small room and starve and drink cheap wine and go crazy in my own way and at my own leisure."


"You begin saving the world by saving one man at a time all else is grandiose romanticism or politics."


"Sometimes all we need to be able to continue aloneare the deadrattling the wallsthat close us in."


"Of one hundred movies there's one that is fair, one that's good and ninety eight that are very bad. most movies start badly and steadily get worse."


"There's no point in writing my kind of stuff, when they're printing that kind of stuff. So I gave up and started drinking."


"I killed four flies while waiting. Damn, death was everywhere. Man, bird, beast, reptile, rodent, insect, fish didn't have a chance. The fix was in. I didn't know what to do about it. I got depressed. You know, I see a boy at the supermarket, he's packing my groceries, then I see him sticking himself into his own grave along with the toilet paper, the beer and the chicken breasts."


"During my worst timeson the park benchesin the jailsor living withwhoresI always had this certaincontentment-I wouldn't call ithappiness-it was more of an innerbalancethat settled forwhatever was occuringand it helped in thefactoriesand when relationshipswent wrongwith thegirls.it helpedthrough thewars and thehangoversthe backalley fightsthehospitals.to awaken in a cheap roomin a strange city andpull up the shade-this was the craziest kind ofcontentmentand to walk across the floorto an old dresser with acracked mirror-see myself, ugly,grinning at it all.what matters most ishow well youwalk through thefire."
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