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"I know more damn perverts, at schools and all, than anybody you ever met, and they're always being perverty when I'm around."
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"A cynic is a man who looks at the world with a monocle in his mind's eye."
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"You're not exactly up for the Humanitarian of the Year award, so save your altruism for someone who can't see through you like cellophane."
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"Anything that has cynicism to it and that's jaded is smutty."
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"No matter how kind you are, always expect a few imbeciles."
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"Love is more than blind. It's brain-dead."
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"When young people are cynical, and snarky, they shoot down their own future. When you keep saying "No," all that's left is what other people said "Yes" to before you were born. Really, "No" is no choice at all."
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"Irony differentiates. Cynicism never does."
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"Cynicism is that blackguard defect of vision which compels us to see the world as it is instead of as it should be."
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"Politicians are interested in the health of the people like predators savor live prey."
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"I guess the painkillers wipe out your memory along with your ethics."
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"I didn't want any degrees if all the ill-read literates and radio announcers and pedagogical dummies I knew had them by the peck."
Education
"She was not one for emptying her face of expression."
Expression
"When you're dead, they really fix you up. I hope to hell when I do die somebody has sense enough to just dump me in the river or something. Anything except sticking me in a goddam cemetery. People coming and putting a bunch of flowers on your stomach on Sunday, and all that crap. Who wants flowers when you're dead? Nobody."
Mortality
"You never really get the smell of burning flesh out of your nose entirely, no matter how long you live."
Life
"I like to be somewhere at least where you can see a few girls around once in a while, even if they're only scratching their arms or blowing their noses or even just giggling or something."
Humor
"He laughed and the others laughed with him, except Babe, who resented slightly that what he felt so deeply could be reduced to a humor."
Humor
"A story never ends. The narrator is usually provided with a nice, artistic spot for his voice to stop, but that's about all."
Literature
"I purely came over because I thought you looked extremely lonely. You have an extremely sensitive face."
Emotion
"It's everybody, I mean. Everything everybody does is so - I don't know - not wrong, or even mean, or even stupid necessarily. But just so tiny and meaningless and - sad-making. And the worst part is, if you go bohemian or something crazy like that, you're conforming just as much only in a different way."
Conformity
"Her joke of a name aside, her general unprettiness aside, she was, in terms of permanently memorable, immoderately perceptive, small-area faces, a stunning and final girl."
Perception
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