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"The more expensive a school is, the more crooks it has - I'm not kidding."
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"Most cynics are really crushed romantics: they've been hurt, they're sensitive, and their cynicism is a shell that's protecting this tiny, dear part in them that's still alive."
"I guess the painkillers wipe out your memory along with your ethics."
"No matter how kind you are, always expect a few imbeciles."
"Anything that has cynicism to it and that's jaded is smutty."
"The only activity a cynic will find contagious is yawning, that is, with other people, at other people."
"I think a lot of cynicism has dropped away from my shoulders since I stopped drinking."
"In bridge clubs and in councils of state, the passions are the same."
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"This whole goddam house stinks of ghosts. I don't mind so much being haunted by a dead ghost, but I resent like hell being haunted by a half-dead one."
"In my mind, I'm probably the biggest sex maniac you ever saw."
"I was half in love with her by the time we sat down. That's the thing about girls. Every time they do something pretty, even if they're not much to look at, or even if they're sort of stupid, you fall half in love with them, and then you never know where the hell you are. Girls. Jesus Christ. They can drive you crazy. They really can."
"That's the spirit! Make it chicken broth or nothing. That's putting the old foot down. If she's determined to have a nervous breakdown, the least we can do is see that she doesn't have it in peace."
"Her joke of a name aside, her general unprettiness aside, she was, in terms of permanently memorable, immoderately perceptive, small-area faces, a stunning and final girl."
"I purely came over because I thought you looked extremely lonely. You have an extremely sensitive face."
"The more expensive a school is, the more crooks it has - I'm not kidding."
"I felt like praying or something, when I was in bed, but I couldn't do it. I can't always pray when I feel like it. In the first place, I'm sort of an atheist. I like Jesus and all, but I don't care too much for most of the other stuff in the Bible. Take the Disciples, for instance. They annoy the hell out of me, if you want to know the truth. They were all right after Jesus was dead and all, but while He was alive, they were about as much use to Him as a hole in the head. All they did was keep letting Him down."
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