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"Bad taste creates many more millionaires than good taste."
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"Some days you live in pajamas, and your hair kind-of has that Albert Einstein look."

"My passionate leisure pursuit are reading, wondering and writing."

"If only for the sake of elegance, I try to remain morally pure."

"A mask you ask? Optional I find!Masks lend appeal of a mysterious kind."

"Luckily, I always travel with a book, just in case I have to wait on line for Santa, or some such inconvenience."

"Because sometimes you just have to dance like a madman in the Self-Help section of your local bookstore."

"Live with style and passion, don't seek the permission of others."
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"All theorieslike clichesshot to hell,all these small faceslooking upbeautiful and believing;I wish to weepbut sorrow isstupid.I wish to believe but believe is agraveyard. we have narrowed it down tothe butcherknife and themockingbird wish usluck."


"I know that some nightin some bedroomsoonmy fingers willriftthroughsoft cleanhairsongs such as no radioplaysall sadness, grinninginto flow."


"There's too much coldness in the world," I told her. "If people would only talk things out together it would help."


"The difference between a democracy and a dictatorship is that in a democracy you vote first and take orders later; in a dictatorship you don't have to waste your time voting."


"I found the best thingI could dowas just to type awayat my own workand let the dyingdieas they always have."


"Having a bunch of cats around is good. If you're feeling bad, just look at the cats, you'll feel better, because they know that everything is, just as it is."


"Basically, that's why I wrote: to save my ass, to save my ass from the madhouse, from the streets, from myself."


"I guess lesbianism wasn't so rampant in those days, they would've gotten a bunk with each other and just left me alone, you know. Which would have been just as well, you know.."


"Born into thisInto hospitals which are so expensive that it's cheaper to dieInto lawyers who charge so much it's cheaper to plead guiltyInto a country where the jails are full and the madhouses closedInto a place where the masses elevate fools into rich heroes..."
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