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"Bullshit french post-war rationalizing."
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"Torturing innocents, murdering civilians and destroying public property; they are all the gifts we have been given by religion."
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"Some lurid things have been said about me-that I am a racist, a hopeless alcoholic, a closet homosexual and so forth-that I leave to others to decide the truth of. I'd only point out, though, that if true these accusations must also have been true when I was still on the correct side, and that such shocking deformities didn't seem to count for so much then. Arguing with the Stalinist mentality for more than three decades now, and doing a bit of soapboxing and street-corner speaking on and off, has meant that it takes quite a lot to hurt my tender feelings, or bruise my milk-white skin."
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"We know of no spectacle more ridiculous-or more contemptible-than that of the religious reactionaries who dare to re-write the history of our republic. Or who try to do so. Is it possible that, in their vanity and stupidity, they suppose that they can erase the name of Thomas Jefferson and replace it with the name of some faith-based mediocrity whose name is already obscure? If so, we cheerfully resolve to mock them, and to give them the lie in their teeth."
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"All around us were people I had spent ten years avoiding--shapeless women in wool bathing suits, dull-eyed men with hairless legs and self-conscious laughs, all Americans, all fearsomely alike. These people should be kept at home, I thought; lock them in the basement of some goddamn Elks Club and keep them pacified with erotic movies; if they want a vacation, show them a foreign art film; and if they still aren't satisfied, send them into the wilderness and run them with vicious dogs."
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"Hater" and "hate" are used when no critical thought can be formed. We can definitely do better."
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"If [literature] should turn into pure propaganda or pure entertainment, society will slip back into the sty of the immediate -- which is to say, the memoryless existence of hymenoptera and gastropods. None of this is so important, to be sure. The world can get by nicely without literature. But without human beings it can get by better yet."
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"Religion is based on the idea that God is an imbecile."
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"Only a man of knowledge is capable of giving constructive criticism."
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"Oh, mankind, race of crocodiles! How well I recognize you down there, and how worthy you are of yourselves!"
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"Mozart, Pascal, Boolean algebra, Shakespeare, parliamentary government, baroque churches, Newton, the emancipation of women, Kant, Balanchine ballets, et al. don't redeem what this particular civilization has wrought upon the world. The white race is the cancer of human history."
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"If you're not failing every now and again, it's a sign you're not doing anything very innovative."
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"Having sex is like bridge. If you don't have a good partner, you'd better have a good hand."
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"What if nothing exists and we're all in somebody's dream?"
Dream
"I hate reality but it's still the best place to get a good steak."
Life
"Sex alleviates tension. Love causes it."
Relationship
"It's a wonderful thing to be able to create your own world whenever you want to."
Creativity
"I am going to give my psychoanalyst one more year then I'm going to Lourdes."
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"There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?"
Life
"Your self esteem is like a notch below Kafka's."
Self
"Right now it's only a notion, but I think I can get the money to make it into a concept, and later turn it into an idea."
Money
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