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"I want to tell you a terrific story about oral contraception. I asked this girl to sleep with me and she said 'No.'"

"I think I'd have done better if I had been a little more relaxed-if I had not pressed quite so hard, if I'd not lost quite so much sleep."

"If I know I have everything prepared for when I get killed by a stalker, then I can go to sleep."

"Laugh and the world laughs with you, snore and you sleep alone."

"Sleeping is no mean art: for its sake one must stay awake all day."
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"Remember it all, every insult, every tear. Tattoo it on the inside of your mind. In life, knowledge of poisons is essential. I've told you, nobody becomes an artist unless they have to."

"Nobody had forgotten anything here. In Berlin, you had to wrestle with the past, you had to build on the ruins, inside them. It wasn't like America where we scraped the earth clean, thinking we could start again every time."

"Always learn poems by heart, ' she said. 'They have to become the marrow in your bones. Like fluoride in the water, they'll make your soul impervious to the world's soft decay."

"I hadn't understood at the time. If sinners were so unhappy, why would they prefer their suffering? But now I knew why.Without my wounds, who was I? My scars were my face, my pastwas my life."

"She wished Michael had had a grandfather like this guy Morty, someone to tell him, 'It's a rotten deal, the house always wins. Just sit at the table and play for all you're worth.' Instead of one who showed him how to die."

"Never let a man stay the night, she told me. 'Dawn has a way of casting a pall on any night magic.'"

"She took a life because someonehumiliated her, hurt her image of herself as the Valkyrie, thestainless warrior. Exposed her weakness, which was only love. So sheavenged herself. So easy to justify, I wrote to her. It's because youfelt like a victim you did it. If you were really strong, you couldhave tolerated the humiliation."
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