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“Poetry is nobody’s business except the poet’s, and everybody else can fuck off.”
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“Sex means nothing--just the moment of ecstasy, that flares and dies in minutes.”
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“I have no enemies. But my friends don't like me.”
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“I can't understand these chaps who go round American universities explaining how they write poems: It's like going round explaining how you sleep with your wife.”
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“They fuck you up, your mum and dad.
They may not mean to, but they do.
They fill you with the faults they had
And add some extra, just for you.
But they were fucked up in their turn
By fools in old-style hats and coats,
Who half the time were soppy-stern
And half at one another's throats.
Man hands on misery to man.
It deepens like a coastal shelf.
Get out as early as you can,
And don't have any kids yourself.”
― High Windows
They may not mean to, but they do.
They fill you with the faults they had
And add some extra, just for you.
But they were fucked up in their turn
By fools in old-style hats and coats,
Who half the time were soppy-stern
And half at one another's throats.
Man hands on misery to man.
It deepens like a coastal shelf.
Get out as early as you can,
And don't have any kids yourself.”
― High Windows
Ask S.E. Hinton - Monday, June 17th!
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Join us on Monday, June 17th for a special discussion with author S.E. Hinton! S.E. Hinton will be discussing her books Tex, Rumble Fish, Som ...more
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