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Maybe that's what life is... a wink of the eye and winking stars.

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The only people for me are the mad ones: the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who... burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow Roman candles.

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If moderation is a fault, then indifference is a crime.

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Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.

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My witness is the empty sky.

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I hope it is true that a man can die and yet not only live in others but give them life, and not only life, but that great consciousness of life.

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Symbolism is alright in 'fiction,' but I tell true life stories simply about what happened to people I knew.

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I had nothing to offer anybody except my own confusion.

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My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them.

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Whither goest thou, America, in thy shiny car in the night?

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Novelist

Born: March 12th, 1922

Died: October 21st, 1969

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