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"Andy Warhol is the only genius I've ever known with an I.Q. of 60."
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"As a bull market continues, almost anything you buy goes up. It makes you feel that investing in stocks is a very easy and safe and that you're a financial genius."

"I think you're all mad. But that's part and parcel of being an artistic genius, isn't it?"

"Genius is nothing but continued attention."

"Vivid simplicity is the articulation, the nature of genius. Wisdom is greater than intelligence; intelligence is greater than philosobabble."

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"Any American who is prepared to run for president should automatically, by definition, be disqualified from ever doing so."

"Until the rise of American advertising, it never occurred to anyone anywhere in the world that the teenager was a captive in a hostile world of adults."

"Democracy is supposed to give you the feeling of choice, like Painkiller X and Painkiller Y. But they're both just aspirin."

"Many writers who choose to be active in the world lose not virtue but time, and that stillness without which literature cannot be made."

"Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half."

"Think of the earth as a living organism that is being attacked by billions of bacteria whose numbers double every forty years. Either the host dies, or the virus dies, or both die."
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