I come from a long line of male chauvinists in a very traditional family. To rebel against my background, I didn't shoot dope--I m...arried a working woman.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Jealousy is indeed a poor medium to secure love, but it is a secure medium to destroy one's self-respect. For jealous people, like... dope-fiends, stoop to the lowest level and in the end inspire only disgust and loathing.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If you think dope is for kicks and for thrills, you're out of your mind. There are more kicks to be had in a good case of paralyti...c polio or by living in an iron lung. If you think you need stuff to play music or sing, you're crazy. It can fix you so you can't play nothing or sing nothing.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Science and art are only too often a superior kind of dope, possessing this advantage over booze and morphia: that they can be ind...ulged in with a good conscience and with the conviction that, in the process of indulging, one is leading the "higher life."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Maybe a nation that consumes as much booze and dope as we do and has our kind of divorce statistics should pipe down about "charac...ter issues." Either that or just go ahead and determine the presidency with three-legged races and pie-eating contests. It would make better TV.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Write, if you must; not otherwise. Do not write, if you can earn a fair living at teaching or dressmaking, at electricity or hod-c...arrying. Make shoes, weed cabbages, survey land, keep house, make ice-cream, sell cake, climb a telephone pole. Nay, be a lightning-rod peddler or a book agent, before you set your heart upon it that you shall write for a living.... Living? It is more likely to be dying by your pen; despairing by your pen; burying hope and heart and youth and courage in your ink-stand.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
You know, it's just like being a peddler. You want two breasts? Well, here you are--two breasts.... We must see to it that the man... looking at the picture has at hand everything he needs to paint a nude. If you really give him everything he needs--and the best--he'll put everything where it belongs, with his own eyes. Each person will make for himself the kind of nude he wants, with the nude that I will have made for him.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
the first day i shot dope was on a sunday.... i had just come home from church got mad at my mother cuz she got mad at me. u dig?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »