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“Only to the extent that we expose ourselves over and over to annihilation can that which is indestructible in us be found.”
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“One ought to hold on to one's heart; for if one lets it go, one soon loses control of the head too.”
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“Books can also provoke emotions. And emotions sometimes are even more troublesome than ideas. Emotions have led people to do all sorts of things they later regret-like, oh, throwing a book at someone else.”
― The Name of This Book Is Secret
― The Name of This Book Is Secret
“We are here to drink beer. We are here to kill war. We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us.”
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“in the cupboard sits my bottle
like a dwarf waiting to scratch out my prayers.
I drink and cough like some idiot at a symphony,
sunlight and maddened birds are everywhere,
the phone rings gamboling its sound
against the odds of the crooked sea;
I drink deeply and evenly now,
I drink to paradise
and death
and the lie of love.”
― The Roominghouse Madrigals: Early Selected Poems, 1946-1966
like a dwarf waiting to scratch out my prayers.
I drink and cough like some idiot at a symphony,
sunlight and maddened birds are everywhere,
the phone rings gamboling its sound
against the odds of the crooked sea;
I drink deeply and evenly now,
I drink to paradise
and death
and the lie of love.”
― The Roominghouse Madrigals: Early Selected Poems, 1946-1966
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