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You’re lucky if you get time to sneeze in this goddam phenomenal world.

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I told her I loved her and all. It was a lie, of course, but the thing is, I meant it when I said it. I’m crazy. I swear to God I am.
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Crazy God Herself Lie Love Myself
Nobody who’s really using his ego, his real ego, has any time for any goddam hobbies.
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Attitude Himself Reality
People never notice anything.
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One Liner People
Sleep tight, ya morons!
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People Stupidity
Grand. There’s a word I really hate. It’s a phony. I could puke every time I hear it.
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Hate Myself Phone Time Word
Do you know what I was smiling at? You wrote down that you were a writer by profession. It sounded to me like the loveliest euphemism I had ever heard. When was writing ever your profession? It’s never been anything but your religion.
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Love Myself Religion Smile Writing
Sentimentality is loving something more than God does.
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Emotional God Love
You think of the book you’d most like to be reading, and then you sit down and shamelessly write it.
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Book Reading Shame Thinking Writing Yourself
I’m one of the little foxes that spoil the grapes.
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Food Myself Oneself
Know your true measurements and dress your mind accordingly.
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Mindset True
I have so much I want to tell you, and nowhere to begin.
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Beginning Myself
That’s something that annoys the hell out of me-I mean if somebody says the coffee’s all ready and it isn’t.
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Hell Myself
The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of the mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one.
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Death Live Man Oneself
We don’t talk, we hold forth. We don’t converse, we expound.
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Talk
I have scars on my hands from touching certain people.
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Hands Myself People Scars Touch
We are, all four of us, blood relatives, and we speak a kind of esoteric, family language, a sort of semantic geometry in which the shortest distance between any two points is a fullish circle.
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Distance Family Kind Language Relationship Talk

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