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"I don't like jail, they got the wrong kind of bars in there."
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"But the one thing you should. not do is to suppose that when something is wrong with the arts, it is wrong with the arts ONLY."

"It is wrong always, everywhere, and for everyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence."

"It is not altogether wrong to say that there is no such thing as a bad photograph - only less interesting, less relevant, less mysterious ones."

"Well, if I called the wrong number, why did you answer the phone?"

"'Cause I felt I didn't have anything else to prove as a musician... and boy was I wrong about that one."
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"The world is better withoutthem.only the plants and the animals aretrue comrades.I drink to them and withthem."


"All we do is sleep, and eat and lay around and make love. We're like slugs. Slug-love, I call it."


"My objection to war was not that I had to kill somebody or be killed senselessly, that hardly mattered. What I objected to was to be denied the right to sit in a small room and starve and drink cheap wine and go crazy in my own way and at my own leisure."


"You begin saving the world by saving one man at a time all else is grandiose romanticism or politics."


"Sometimes all we need to be able to continue aloneare the deadrattling the wallsthat close us in."


"Of one hundred movies there's one that is fair, one that's good and ninety eight that are very bad. most movies start badly and steadily get worse."


"There's no point in writing my kind of stuff, when they're printing that kind of stuff. So I gave up and started drinking."


"I killed four flies while waiting. Damn, death was everywhere. Man, bird, beast, reptile, rodent, insect, fish didn't have a chance. The fix was in. I didn't know what to do about it. I got depressed. You know, I see a boy at the supermarket, he's packing my groceries, then I see him sticking himself into his own grave along with the toilet paper, the beer and the chicken breasts."
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