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Of all men the drunkard is the foulest. The thief when he is not stealing is like another. The extortioner does not practice in the home. The murderer when he is at home can wash his hands. But the drunkard stinks and vomits in this own bed and dissolves his organs in alcohol.

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I wonder what your idea of heaven would be — A beautiful vacuum filled with wealthy monogamists. All powerful and members of the best families all drinking themselves to death. And hell would probably an ugly vacuum full of poor polygamists unable to obtain booze or with chronic stomach disorders that they called secret sorrows.

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We have very primitive emotions,” he said . “It's impossible not to be competitive. Spoils everything, though.

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I decided that I would write one story about each thing that I knew about.

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When spring came, even the false spring, there were no problems except where to be happiest.

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I drink to make other people more interesting.

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Got tight on absinthe last night. Did knife tricks.

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An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools.

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Writing and travel broaden your ass if not your mind and I like to write standing up.

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My,' she said. 'We're lucky that you found the place.' We're always lucky,' I said and like a fool I did not knock on wood. There was wood everywhere in that apartment to knock on too.

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Nobody that ever left their own country ever wrote anything worth printing. Not even in the newspapers.

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I am always in love.

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you can't get away from yourself by moving from one place to another.

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You should only read what is truly good or what is frankly bad.

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I learned never to empty the well of my writing, but always to stop when there was still something there in the deep part of the well, and let it refill at night from the springs that fed it.

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Got tight last night on absinthe and did knife tricks. Great success shooting the knife underhand into the piano. The woodworms are so bad and eat hell out of all the furniture that you can always claim the woodworms did it.

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I hate a cramp, he thought. It is a treachery of one's own body.

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For a true writer each book should be a new beginning, where he tries again for something that is beyond attainment.

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Always stop for the day while you still know what will happen next.

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Night life is when everybody says what the hell and you do not remember who paid the bill.

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