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"The world is better withoutthem.only the plants and the animals aretrue comrades.I drink to them and withthem."
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"Like the ocean, never forget to be generous with your love."

"Regardless of all our pretenses, deep within, we are still unconsciously the same old cave-people."

"Forgetting nature is like forgetting your mother. Remember you are a child of nature. You are connected to it and belong to it. So don't forget to protect her."

"Keep the environment clean and the waters clear as crystal."
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"All we do is sleep, and eat and lay around and make love. We're like slugs. Slug-love, I call it."


"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."


"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."
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