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"The more expensive a school is, the more crooks it has - I'm not kidding."
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"The more expensive a school is, the more crooks it has - I'm not kidding."
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"All these handsome guys are the same. When they're done combing their goddam hair, they beat it on you."
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"It is through experience that I have lost faith in USA law enforcement."
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"The only deadly sin I know is cynicism."
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"The only activity a cynic will find contagious is yawning, that is, with other people, at other people."
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"Cynicism is that blackguard defect of vision which compels us to see the world as it is instead of as it should be."
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"I guess the painkillers wipe out your memory along with your ethics."
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"A cynic is a man who looks at the world with a monocle in his mind's eye."
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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."
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"Irony differentiates. Cynicism never does."
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"It's partly true, too, but it isn't all true. People always think something's all true."
Truth
"Grand. There's a word I really hate. It's a phony. I could puke every time I hear it."
Critique
"One of the few things left in the world, aside from the world itself, that sadden me every day is an awareness that you get upset if Boo Boo or Walt tells you you're saying something that sounds like me. You sort of take it as an accusation of piracy, a little slam at your individuality. Is it so bad that we sometimes sound like each other? The membrane is so thin between us. Is it so important for us to keep in mind which is whose... For us, doesn't each of our individualities begin right at the point where we own up to our extremely close connections and accept the inevitability of borrowing one another's jokes, talents, idiocies?"
Interdependence
"The worst that being an artist could do to you would be that it would make you slightly unhappy constantly."
Creativity
"I'm no goddam animal. I may be a stupid, fouled-up twentieth-century son of a bitch, but I'm no animal. Don't gimme that. I'm no animal."
Morality
"It's everybody, I mean. Everything everybody does is so - I don't know - not wrong, or even mean, or even stupid necessarily. But just so tiny and meaningless and - sad-making. And the worst part is, if you go bohemian or something crazy like that, you're conforming just as much only in a different way."
Conformity
"She was not one for emptying her face of expression."
Expression
"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."
Doubt
"But I was afraid of the questions (much more than the accusations) you might both put to me."
Fear
"You ought to go to a boy's school sometime. Try it sometime," I said. "It's full of phonies, and all you do is study so that you can learn enough to be smart enough to be able to buy a goddam Cadillac some day, and you have to keep making believe you give a damn if the football team loses, and all you do is talk about girls and liquor and sex all day, and everybody sticks together in these dirty little goddam cliques."
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