"The tools I need for my work are paper, tobacco, food, and a little whiskey."

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"The tools I need for my work are paper, tobacco, food, and a little whiskey."

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"The best job that was ever offered to me was to become a landlord in a brothel. In my opinion it's the perfect milieu for an artist to work in."

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"The salvation of the world is in man's suffering."

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"The end of wisdom is to dream high enough to lose the dream in the seeking of it."

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"If I were reincarnated, I'd want to come back a buzzard. Nothing hates him or envies him or wants him or needs him. He is never bothered or in danger, and he can eat anything."

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"Pointless... like giving caviar to an elephant."

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"All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the basis of our splendid failure to do the impossible."

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