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"All these handsome guys are the same. When they're done combing their goddam hair, they beat it on you."
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"The more expensive a school is, the more crooks it has - I'm not kidding."
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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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"Look at 'em,' he said. 'Goddam fools.' 'Who?' said Ginnie. 'I don't know. Anybody."
Judgment
"John Keats / John Keats / John / Please put your scarf on."
Poetry
"I have a feeling that you're riding for some kind of terrible, terrible fall. . . . The whole arrangement's designed for men who, at some time or other in their lives, were looking for something their own environment couldn't supply them with. . . . So they gave up looking."
Wisdom
"Though we've talked and talked and talked, we've all agreed not to say a word."
Silence
"I say that the true artist-seer, the heavenly fool who can and does produce beauty, is mainly dazzled to death by his own scruples, the blinding shapes and colors of his own sacred human consciousness."
Art
"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
"I always pick a gorgeous time to fall over a suitcase or something."
Humor
"You never really get the smell of burning flesh out of your nose entirely, no matter how long you live."
Life
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