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"Reality is never as bad as a nightmare, as the mental tortures we inflict on ourselves."
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"The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party when the masks are dropped."

"Never expect people to understand, respect or love you , they are just a bunch of dirty flesh and fake skins. Staring to eat you when you are fat enough."

"It is hope--with regard to our careers, our love lives, our children, our politicians, and our planet--that is primarily to blame for angering and embittering us. The incompatibility between the grandeur of our aspirations and the mean reality of our condition generates the violent disappointments which rack our days and etch themselves in lines of acrimony across our faces."

"It is impossible for a man to outpace his shadow."

"But alas, the world is not a wish-granting factory."

"You cannot change reality by ignoring it."

"The reality about life is that challenges are inevitable."
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"To appear on the stage drunk, to have them leave there and remember me making drunken mistakes, that was death."


"I believed in Bobby Kennedy. Campaigning for him was an attempt to give back something to this country that has given me so much."


"There are lines that I know are going to get a belly laugh, but after a few shows I get sick of hearing myself say them so I drop them."


"I hadn't been in Vegas 20 minutes when I got word that the bookmakers were offering three to one that Frank wouldn't show for my wedding."


"Being a star has made it possible for me to get insulted in places where the average Negro could never hope to go and get insulted."
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