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Rogelio 2022-03-21 09:03:19

52 excerpts from Whitman's Poems

You have not known what you are

You have slumbered upon yourself all your life

Your eyelids have been the same as closed most of the time

1 hour and 6 minutes Billie's conversation with his mother

All I ever wanted was a tiny taste of something, resembling a normal and rational life.

Do you know that I actually went away to school and took a class in the culture of the 60s just to try understand the way you lived? The choices that you made. Just to... to try to make sense out of all that new freedom. And ... upheaval and fucking anarchy?

You know and the problem is you tore everything down but you were too lazy to actually build anything as an alternative.

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Leaves of Grass quotes

  • Bill Kincaid: [Janet has just caught a monster catfish with her forearm through its mouth, called "noodling"] You have a spiritual objection to monofilament?

  • Brady Kincaid: [talking about Janet] She's a poet.

    Bill Kincaid: What?

    Brady Kincaid: Seriously. She writes fuckin' poetry. And she's the Ladies Noodling Champion of '05.

    Bill Kincaid: Her?

    Brady Kincaid: 125 pounds of catfish in under 10 hours with nothing but her bare hands.

    [sigh]

    Brady Kincaid: I tried to get her and Colleen in a three-way once, but wouldn't neither of 'em go for it.