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"Strip away the phony tinsel of Hollywood and you'll find the real tinsel underneath."
Hollywood
"I have no trouble with y enemies. But my god damn friends... they are the ones that keep me walking the floors at night."
God
"What the world needs is more geniuses with humility; there are so few of us left."
Humility
"I'm a study of a man in chaos in search of frenzy."
Chaos
"Once I make up my mind, I'm full of indecision."
Indecision
"Behind the phony tinsel of Hollywood lies the real tinsel."
Hollywood
"I can remember Doris Day before she was a virgin."
Day
"There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line."
Genius
"I have given up reading books; I find it takes my mind off myself."
Books
"A politician is a man who will double cross that bridge when he comes to it."
Man
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"Because if it's really true that there's no order, then anything can happen to us. Anything at all. There's no real natural law, no right and wrong that's immutable, and the world is suddenly a savage place where any number of things can go wrong."
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"If this all works which I have read and some of which I have written did happen just one year... the events... wow...wow... what type of serial killer... what type of crazy mad stuff are going to happen... it's just an example of chaos."
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"When there's darkness, there are all kinds of evil things happening, rebellion is there, and corruption is operating."
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"They (who by their very nature are impatient) fling themselves at each other when love takes hold of them, they scatter themselves, just as they are, in all their messiness, disorder, bewilderment. And what can happen then? What can life do with this heap of half-broken things that they call their communion and that they would like to call their happiness, if that were possible, and their future? And so each of them loses himself for the sake of the other person, and loses the other, and many others who still wanted to come."
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"We go in to liberate Cuba, but Cuba still isn't free; we don't really think through what we'll do after the initial treaty is signed, but we're still occupying. There's chaos and torture and finally an outcry."
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"I once had been in the middle of a mass chaos and terrible riots.There, I witnessed how men were truly such as beasts unleashed."
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"Irony is a clear consciousness of an eternal agility, of the infinitely abundant chaos."
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"They may the better fish in the water when it is troubled."
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"We'll fight back, we'll fight back, we'll fight back," a man near Doctor Stockstill was chanting. Stockstill looked at him in astonishment, wondering who he would fight back against. Things were falling on them; did the man intend to fall back upward into the sky in some sort of revenge?"
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"The clown is a creature of chaos. His appearance is an affront to our sense of dignity, his actions a mockery of our sense of order. The clown (freedom) is always being chased by the policeman (authority). Clowns are funny precisely because their shy hopes lead invariably to brief flings of (exhilarating?) disorder followed by crushing retaliation from the status quo. It delights us to watch a careless clown break taboos; it thrills us vicariously to watch him run wild and free; it reassures us to see him slapped down and order restored. After all, we can condone liberty only up to a point. Consider Jesus as a ragged, nonconforming clown--laughed at, persecuted and despised--playing out the dumb show at his crucifixion against the responsible pretensions of authority."
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