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"You always have two choices: your commitment versus your fear."
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"At three in the morning the gaudy paint is off that old whore, the world, and she has no nose and a glass eye. Gaiety becomes hollow and brittle, as in Poe's castle surrounded by the Red Death. Horror is destroyed by boredom. Love is a dream."

"It is not that I was credulous, simply that I belived in all things dark and dangerous. It was part of my young creed that the night was full of ghosts and witches, hungry and flapping and dressed completely in black."

"Throughout the evolution of mankind our very much primordial ancestors had one thing in common, it was ignorance. This ignorance gave birth to fear. Fear of the unknown became a quintessential element of their daily survival. To ace the intensity of the fear, rituals of worship arose."
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"To appear on the stage drunk, to have them leave there and remember me making drunken mistakes, that was death."

"I'd learned a lot in the Army. I knew that above all things in the world I had to become so big, so strong that people and their hatred could never touch me."

"Marilyn and I were rumored to be an item. We were friends. Nothing more. Marilyn was one of the sweetest creatures that ever lived."

"I believed in Bobby Kennedy. Campaigning for him was an attempt to give back something to this country that has given me so much."

"I bought a house in the Hollywood Hills and brought my grandmother from Harlem to live in it with me."

"Being in public with May and the children was too heavy. I was irreversibly tuned in to everyone around us."
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