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"Not everyone who has killed themselves because they were HIV positive would have been killed by AIDS."

"Killing myself was a matter of such indifference to me that I felt like waiting for a moment when it would make some difference."

"I do not have a problem with people killing themselves, as long as they took at least a hundred years to think about what they are about to do."

"He said you were the only one who was bitter about S.'s suicide and the only one who really forgave him for it. The rest of us, he said, were outwardly unbitter and inwardly unforgiving."

"I don't think Jimi committed suicide in the conventional way. He just decided to exit when he wanted to."

"I tried to commit suicide by sticking my head in the oven, but there was a cake in it."

"I have a new joke today. Martha Stewart's on suicide watch. They had to unplug all of her ovens."

"Would Hamlet have felt the delicious fascination of suicide if he hadn't had an audience, and lines to speak?"
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"I developed a resistance to authority. Not to discipline - I learned that. But to authority. I like to think for myself. And I like to cause trouble."

"Man is the religious animal. He is the only one that's got true religion, several of them."

"Man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss."

"I got a feeling about political correctness. I hate it. It causes us to lie silently instead of saying what we think."

"We don't have truth delivered to us very often, especially in this very commercialized world."

"We live in a democracy. We have this extraordinary opportunity to use our mind and say what we think, speak as we think. Sometimes what we say is objectionable to other people. But that is part of a free society."

"You can go into Mark Twain's material and prove anything you want. He was against war. He was for war. He was against rich people and he was for them. He was a kaleidoscope."

"One of the problems with putting Huck Finn into a movie or on the stage is, you always make the white people stupid and racist. The point is, they don't know they're racist."
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