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No good government but what is republican. . . the very definition of a republic is 'an empire of laws, and not of men. '

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I believe some people are just too damn smart to write fiction.

Believe, Smart, Write, Writing
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There is something beautiful about all scars of whatever nature. A scar means the hurt is over, the wound is closed and healed, done with.

Beautiful, Broken Heart, Done, Hurt, Nature, Scar

I never wanted to be well-rounded. I do not admire well-rounded people nor their work. So far as I can see, nothing good in the world has ever been done by well-rounded people. The good work is done by people with jagged, broken edges, because those edges cut things and leave an imprint, a design.

Creativity, Cutting, Design, See, Work, World

Writers spend all their time preoccupied with just the things that their fellow men and women spend their time trying to avoid thinking about. . . . It takes great courage to look where you have to look, which is in yourself, in your experience, in your relationship with fellow beings, your relationship to the earth, to the spirit or to the first cause—to look at them and make something of them.

Courage, Men, Preoccupied, Relationship, Thinking, Writing

The writers job is to get naked, To hide nothing. To look away from nothing. To look at it. To not blink. To be not embarrassed or shamed of it. Strip it down and lets get down to where the blood is, the bone is. Instead of hiding it with clothes and all kinds of other stuff, luxury!

Away, Blood, Jobs, Luxury, Shamed, Strip

Alcohol whipped me. Alcohol and I had many, many marvelous times together. We laughed, we talked, we danced at the party together; then one day I woke up and the band had gone home and I was lying in the broken glass with a shirt full of puke and I said, 'Hey, man, the ball game's up'.

Band, Broken, Home, Laughed, Lying, Party
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