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"You begin saving the world by saving one man at a time all else is grandiose romanticism or politics."
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"The time for revolt is now, and the time for revolt is always!"

"Taking consistent action is guaranteed to increase the probability of your success."

"Actions are the flowers of thoughts."

"Be bold. Be not fearful. Take actions. Action is real. Results requires interpretation and depends on perception."

"Breaking down a closed door is quicker than waiting for someone to answer it."

"Actions can let you fail or let you succeed. Either way it will never fail to give you experience which is much more important than success or failure."
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"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."


"Ithink that theworld should be full of cats and full of rain, that's all, justcats andrain, rain and cats, very nice, goodnight."


"People need me. I fillthem. if they can't see mefor awhile the get desperate, they getsick.but if I see them too oftenI get sick. it's hard to feedwithout getting fed."


"Turgenev was a very serious fellow but he could make me laugh because a truth first encountered can be very funny. When someone else's truth is the same as your truth, and he seems to be saying it just for you, that's great."


"The writing of somemenis like a vast bridgethat carries youoverthe many thingsthat claw and tear.The Wine of Forever."
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