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"There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are."
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"A good teacher must know the rules; a good pupil, the exceptions."
"California lacks a lot of the rules and restrictions the East has. Every house is a different style, different material, different color. There's a lot of craziness out there."
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"I don't get to live by different rules. The same boundaries that apply to everyone apply to me."
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"You're not allowed to step out of whatever the rules are, politically, or socially, and they'll get you for it, they'll hunt you down. That's the really frightening thing."
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"I'll give you my opinion of the human race in a nutshell... their heart's in the right place, but their head is a thoroughly inefficient organ."
"My own belief is that there is hardly anyone whose sexual life, if it were broadcast, would not fill the world at large with surprise and horror."
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