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"The stars are fixed in rooftops like ink."
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"A pain stabbed my heart as it did every time I saw a girl I loved who was going the opposite direction in this too-big world."

"Mankind is like dogs, not gods - as long as you don't get mad they'll bite you - but stay mad and you'll never be bitten. Dogs don't respect humility and sorrow."

"It is not my fault that certain so-called bohemian elements have found in my writings something to hang their peculiar beatnik theories on."

"I walked around the sad honkytonks of Curtis Street; young kids in jeans and red shirts; peanut shells, movie marquees, shooting parlours. Beyond the glittering street was darkness, and beyond the darkness the West. I had to go."

"I like too many things and get all confused and hung-up running from one falling star to another til I drop."

"My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them."
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"Clear skies do not promise rain."

"What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered."

"A puddle repeats infinity, and is full of light; nevertheless, if analyzed objectively, a puddle is a piece of dirty water spread very thin on mud."
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