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So what’s the use of repentance, and what do you care for goodness, and what if you should die in a quake, so who the hell cares? So I walked downtown, so these were the high buildings, so let the earthquake come, let it bury me and my sins, so who the hell cares? No good to God or man, die one way or another, a quake or a hanging, it didn’t matter why or when or how.
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Well, this is good for me, this is experience, I am here for a reason, these moments run into pages, the seamy side of life.
When stuck, hit the road.
Literary criticism is generally bunk. Nonsense. Usually based on self-serving post-intellectual bullshit.
I have wanted women whose very shoes are worth all I have ever possessed.
Like my father, I am very impatient. I have a strong bullshit detector. I may finish one book in twenty that I have started.
Sick in my soul I tried to face the ordeal of seeking forgiveness. From whom? What God, what Christ? They were myths I once believed and now they were beliefs I felt were myths.
For your information, a good novel can change the world. Keep that in mind before you attempt to sit down at a typewriter. Never waste time on something you don't believe in yourself.
Arturo Bandini: -What does happiness mean to you Camilla? Camilla: -That you can fall in love with whoever you want to, and not feel ashamed of it.
One night I was sitting on the bed in my hotel room on Buker Hill, down in the middle of Los Angeles. It was an important night in my life, because I had to make a decision about the hotel. Either I paid up or I got out: that was what the note said, the note the landlady had put under my door. A great problem, deserving acute attention. I solved it by turning out the lights and going to bed.
Almighty God, I am sorry I am now an atheist, but have You read Nietzsche?
