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"The Edge... there is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over."

"The healthiest competition occurs when average people win by putting above average effort."

"People are always good company when they are doing what they really enjoy."

"Young people have a marvelous faculty of either dying or adapting themselves to circumstances."

"I think in 1991, when Jimmy got to the semifinals, it was just incredible all of the people coming out."
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"American couples have gone to such lengths to avoid the interference of in-laws that they have to pay marriage counselors to interfere between them."

"Now the only thing I miss about sex is the cigarette afterward. Next to the first one in the morning, it's the best one of all. It tasted so good that even if I had been frigid I would have pretended otherwise just to be able to smoke it."

"Americans worship creativity the way they worship physical beauty - as a way of enjoying elitism without guilt: God did it."

"People are so busy dreaming the American Dream, fantasizing about what they could be or have a right to be, that they're all asleep at the switch. Consequently we are living in the Age of Human Error."

"Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind."

"He travels fastest who travels alone, and that goes double for she. Real feminism is spinsterhood."

"In social matters, pointless conventions are not merely the bee sting of etiquette, but the snake bite of moral order."
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