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"The lucky thing was that I was Italian; when the other Italians saw me fight back, they came to my defence."
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"Tell me what is right and I will fight for it."
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"Whoever won't fight when the President calls him, deserves to be kicked back in his hole and kept there."
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"When there is no peril in the fight there is no glory in the triumph."
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"The world is a fine place and worth the fighting for and I hate very much to leave it."
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"From where the sun now stands I will fight no more."
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"I feel like I'm always fighting not to repeat myself."
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"Writers and politicians are natural rivals. Both groups try to make the world in their own images; they fight for the same territory."
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"Lesbians and gays... they still have to fight, even inside. It's not that simple, even if they seem to be accepted."
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"I'm having fun opening up. Sort of struggling to get the audience into it. It's good. It makes you fight. Not fight like antagonistic. But fight for what you believe."
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"Message to Obama: Fighting the Clinton machine won't be as easy as picking up favorable press clips."
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"The lucky thing was that I was Italian; when the other Italians saw me fight back, they came to my defence."
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"Anyway, I lived on the streets and did pretty good until I got caught stealing, what was it? I kicked in a restaurant window, went in and took all the food that I wanted, and while coming out I was grabbed."
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"My father took me back home, back to Greenwich Village, and he thought by taking me out of the orphanage he'd be out of the World War too. But no way - they got him anyway. He went in the Navy and then I lived on the streets."
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"Now, twenty years old, I come out and I go back to Greenwich Village. Now, of course, I'm a wealthy man."
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"The other guy I dug a lot was Burroughs because he was a smart man already; he learned it through the druggie pool - the street scene of an old aristocratic kind of man."
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"My father went into the armed service and I never saw my mother - I don't know what happened to her."
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"I just trust people and they sense everything's gonna be alright."
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"The judge said I was a menace to society because I had put crime on a scientific basis."
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"I moved up over Lower East Side and I was adopted by eight foster parents; I lived all over New York City with these parents, man, till I was about ten years old."
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"They, that unnamed "they," they've knocked me down but I got up. I always get up-and I swear when I went down quite often I took the fall; nothing moves a mountain but itself. They, I've long ago named them me."
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