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“I began to cherish the loneliness of it, the sense that at any given time no one need know where I was or what I was doing.”

“…and knew that I had come out of the West and reached the mirage. I could taste the peach and feel the soft air blowing from a subway grating on my legs and I could smell lilac and garbage and expensive perfume and I knew that it would cost something sooner or later.”

“…how six months can become eight years with the deceptive ease of a film dissolve, for that is how those years appear to me now, in a long sequence of sentimental dissolves and old-fashioned trick shots.”

“It is easy to see the beginnings of things, and harder to see the ends.“