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"She liked me because she said that we both hated everything and knew that friendship was an act of desperation. She said that for a man I was alright. She said that people were half-way and if it was up to her a lot of people would get killed and a lot of men would be walking around without their balls. She said that they should go on sale for women to hang off their rearview mirrors."
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"Knowing without loving is frankly dangerous for the soul and for society. You'll critique most everything you encounter and even have the hubris to call this mode of reflexive cynicism 'thinking' (whereas it's really your ego's narcissistic reaction to the moment). You'll position things to quickly as inferior or superior, 'with me' or 'against me, ' and most of the time you'll be wrong."

"The more expensive a school is, the more crooks it has - I'm not kidding."

"It is good to be a cynic - it is better to be a contented cat - and it is best not to exist at all."

"The only activity a cynic will find contagious is yawning, that is, with other people, at other people."

"I know more damn perverts, at schools and all, than anybody you ever met, and they're always being perverty when I'm around."

"I think a lot of cynicism has dropped away from my shoulders since I stopped drinking."
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"The only difference between me and others is that they think they can change something with cute little poems, nice cards or embracing trees and being nice to little lapdogs."

"I've always seen it as the role of an artist to drag his inside out, give the audience all you've got. Writers, actors, singers, all good artists do the same. It isn't supposed to be easy."

"I tend to gravitate to the darkest or most obscure part of any venue in an effort to have my own space to experience the music on my own, free from unwanted conversations and other distractions."

"With any advent in technology, any technological innovation, there is the good and the bad."

"There is nothing like being told to go fuck yourself by the same person who was, only days before, praying on your behalf."

"I am a veteran of the War on Christmas. I am just emerging from a battlefield strewn with dead trees and torn shreds of brightly colored wrapping paper."
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