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"Most people live in the city and go to the country at the weekend, and that's posh and aristocratic, but actually to live in the country and come to London when you can't take it any more is different."
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"Often people display a curious respect for a man drunk, rather like the respect of simple races for the insane... There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions."
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"The last resort of kings, the cannonball. The last resort of the people, the paving stone."
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"It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other."
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"There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness."
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"Whatever good things people say of us, they tell us nothing new."
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"I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal."
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"There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating - people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing."
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"Stephen King in many respects is a wonderful writer. He has made a contribution. People in the future will be able to pick up Stephen King's books and learn a lot about who we were by reading those books."
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"We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones."
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"Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them."
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"It's good to have a title that's not just one word. If you're gonna title it, you might as well try and say something."
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"I always feel like the art's there and I just see it, so it's not really a lot of work."
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"The goal in life is to be solid, whereas the way that life works is totally fluid, so you can never actually achieve that goal."
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"I think suicide is the most perfect thing you can do in life."
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"Artists are like everybody else."
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"Most people live in the city and go to the country at the weekend, and that's posh and aristocratic, but actually to live in the country and come to London when you can't take it any more is different."
People

"In an artwork you're always looking for artistic decisions, so an ashtray is perfect. An ashtray has got life and death."
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"It's such a crass idea - you're either in love or out of love."
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"So smoking is the perfect way to commit suicide without actually dying. I smoke because it's bad, it's really simple."
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"Immortality is really desirable, I guess. In terms of images, anyway."
Immortality
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