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"Meanwhile after failing the bar twice, I knew some people in New York and moved here in August '71."
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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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"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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"We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones."
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"I do give books as gifts sometimes, when people would rather have one than a new Ferrari."
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"If something in your writing gives support to people in their lives, that's more than just entertainment-which is what we writers all struggle to do, to touch people."
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"Perhaps being old is having lighted rooms inside your head, and people in them, acting. People you know, yet can't quite name."
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"The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action."
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"Even by the time I was four or five, I had Gene Autry records."
Time
"From '69 til '76, I never played in public. I would play by myself at home."
Home
"Meanwhile after failing the bar twice, I knew some people in New York and moved here in August '71."
People
"By then I was in Brooklyn and drank my way through that summer. I stopped when I got sick of that and got a job at the Strand bookstore, which was a little better than the tax job."
Tax
"I was coerced into taking piano lessons in the early '50s. It was a quite unpleasant experience."
Experience
"I think Blank Generation holds up pretty well. You listen to that with headphones and there's a lot going on there with the guitars- it's the product of a lot of fighting."
Fight
"I quit the tax job then and decided that I was going to play in a band. I answered ads in the Village Voice and went through two days of auditioning for bands."
Tax
"By many peoples' standards, my playing is very primitive but by punk standards, I'm a virtuoso."
Punk
"Reading music is something that's inherently hateful to me. It makes music like mathematics."
Music
"After I exhausted the blues thing, I got into jazz."
Jazz
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