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"Young alienation, disappointment and heartache is all a part of the first real growing up that we do."
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"Sometimes I almost pity them. I think I have a freedom they cannot understand. No insult, no blame can touch me. Because I have set myself beyond the pale. I am nothing, I am hardly human any more. I am the French Lieutenant's Whore."
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"They too, knew this beautiful and harrowing landscape; they'd had the same experience of looking up from their books with fifth-century eyes and finding the world disconcertingly sluggish and alien, as if it were not their home."
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"Books turn people into isolated individuals, and once that's happened, the road only grows rockier. Books wire you to want to be Steve McQueen, but the world wants you to be SMcQ23667bot@hotmail.com."
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"In all her intercourse with society, however, there was nothing that made her feel as if she belonged to it... She stood apart from mortal interests, yet close beside them, like a ghost that revisits the familiar fireside, and can no longer make itself seen or felt."
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"The alienation of man thus appeared as the fundamental evil of capitalist society."
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"As far as Samson was concerned I was just another foreigner in pursuit of a lunatic quest."
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"Whether I was a genius or not did not so much concern me as the fact that I simply did not want a part of anything. The animal-drive and energy of my fellow man amazed me: that a man could change tires all day long or drive an ice cream truck or run for Congress or cut into a man's guts in surgery or murder, this was all beyond me. I did not want to begin. I still don't. Any day I that I could cheat away from this system of living seemed a good victory for me."
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"I feel closer ties and more intimate bonds with certain characters in books, with certain images I've seen in engravings, than with many supposedly real people with the metaphysical absurdity known as 'flesh and blood'. In fact, 'flesh and blood' describes them very well: they resemble cuts of meat laid out on the butcher's marble slab, dead creatures bleeding as though still alive."
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"Whoever decides to hate others has chosen to walk alone."
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"Just as man is governed, in religion, by the products of his own brain, so, in capitalist production, he is governed by the products of his own hand."
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"The movie that's had the most effect on me is Jaws. To this day when I'm in the ocean, I'm hearing that music."
Music


"It's still a bottom-line business. You can be out of control, and if they want you, they'll pick you. And you can be a mensch, and if you're not the product they want, you won't get it."
Business


"When I was in college, all the pretty women were in the theatre, so I auditioned for a play."
Woman


"I don't have any blindness when it comes to my money. As an actor, you can get distracted by your work. I do keep an eye on my nest egg, if you will."
Money


"I always thought that the badge a cop has was more like the shield that Captain America has. It's an obvious sign of good and something you'll protect other people with, but it will also protect you."
Thought


"While they would have provided financial support if I had needed it, the greatest support my parents gave was emotional, psychological."
Finance


"I'm involved with Recording Artists and Actors Against Drunk Driving. I'm also involved with most children's causes, because children can't help the environment they're in."
Actor


"Young alienation, disappointment and heartache is all a part of the first real growing up that we do."
Alienation


"A fancy watch, it's completely unnecessary. I just need a watch to tell the right time."
Time


"My closest friend is canine. I have precious few close friends, and most of them are not actors."
Friendship
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