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"If I can make people laugh it's like being a good lover."
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"I knew I couldn't live in America and I wasn't ready to move to Europe so I moved to an island off the coast of America - New York City ."
"I was darkly convinced that at age 52 I would kill myself because my mother committed suicide at that age. I was fantasizing that she was waiting for me on the other side of the grave."
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"I understood once I held a baby in my arms, why some people have the need to keep having them."
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