I was going to try to evoke the atmosphere that excited me without trying to actually depict it, ... The main idea was to talk about people for whom poetry was the highest value. ... I just knew I wanted to talk about this kind of way of life, and then it occurred to me to do the Rimbaud-Verlaine thing.
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Hell washed up in New York City in the early 1970s as a 17-year-old runaway from Lexington, Ky., hoping to make his mark as a poet and writer. He wasn't running from anything as much as he was just running. I always just had this urge to just take off, so at least once a year I would run away from home, just to get out from under any restrictions, ... That was a big part of my conception of myself, running away.Richard Hell
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It's great for me to move on from that, ... And I'm glad I survived, to be able to.
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When I do dig down, I'm very irritated underneath, ... Why can't I just write a book about taking a walk and having a cup of coffee It kind of annoys me about myself. If I could do it differently, I would. It's not some kind of principle. It's just in my nature somehow.
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