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The Castle in the Forest

by Norman Mailer

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“Often it feels like I am breathing today only because a few years back I had no idea which nerve to cut...”
― Sanhita Baruah

tags: alive, alone, broken, crying, cut, depressed, devastated, grief, life, loneliness, lonely, loss, love, madness, melancholy, mess, morose, nerve, sad, solitude, suicidal, suicide, suicide-attempt, unhappy, weeping

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“If, after spending time with a person, you feel as though you've lost a quart of plasma, avoid that person in the future.”
― William S. Burroughs

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“I had no particular desire to enlighten them, but I had some difficulty in restraining myself from laughing in their faces, so full of stupid importance.”
― Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness

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“The main problem in any democracy is that crowd-pleasers are generally brainless swine who can go out on a stage & whup their supporters into an orgiastic frenzy—then go back to the office & sell every one of the poor bastards down the tube for a nickel apiece.”
― Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing: On the Campaign Trail '72

tags: democracy, politicians

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“Build a good name. Keep your name clean. Don’t make compromises, don’t worry about making a bunch of money or being successful — be concerned with doing good work and make the right choices and protect your work. And if you build a good name, eventually, that name will be its own currency." - William S. Burroughs”
― William S. Burroughs

tags: inspirational, work-ethic

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