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A born writer is born scrofulous; his career is an accident dictated by physical or circumstantial disabilities.
An alcoholic is someone you don't like who drinks as much as you do.
Don't be too harsh to these poems until they're typed. I always think typescript lends some sort of certainty: at least, if the things are bad then, they appear to be bad with conviction.
Dylan talked copiously, then stopped. 'Somebody's boring me,' he said, 'I think it's me.'
Go on thinking that you don't need to be read and you'll find that it may become quite true: no one will feel the need tom read it because it is written for yourself alone; and the public won't feel any impulse to gate crash such a private party.
Great is the hand that holds dominion over man by a scribbled name.
He who seeks rest finds boredom. He who seeks work finds rest.
I hold a beast, an angel and a madman in me, and my enquiry is as to their working, and my problem is their subjugation and victory, downthrow and upheaval, and my effort is their self-expression.
I went on all over the States, ranting poems to enthusiastic audiences that, the week before, had been equally enthusiastic about lectures on Railway Development or the Modern Turkish Essay.
I've just had eighteen straight whiskies. I think that's the record.
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