Life's single lesson: that there is more accident to it than a man can ever admit to in a lifetime and stay sane.

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Keep cool but care.

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Though it is not often that death is so clearly told to fuck off.

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If there is something comforting - religious, if you want - about paranoia, there is still also anti-paranoia, where nothing is connected to anything, a condition not many of us can bear for long.

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Love with your mouth shut, help without breaking your ass or publicizing it: keep cool, but care.

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Someday she might replace whatever of her had gone away by some prosthetic device, a dress of a certain color, a phrase in a letter, another lover.

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Paranoids are not paranoid because they're paranoid, but because they keep putting themselves, fucking idiots, deliberately into paranoid situations.

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A screaming comes across the sky.

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Every weirdo in the world is on my wavelength.

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There is nothing so loathsome as a sentimental surrealist.

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