"Sometimes you just have to pee in the sink."
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"you boys can keep your virgins give me hot old women in high heels with asses that forgot to get old."
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"Great art is horseshit, buy tacos."
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"I've never met another man I'd rather be."
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"Style is the answer to everything. A fresh way to approach a dull or dangerous thing. To do a dull thing with style is preferable to doing a dangerous thing without it. To do a dangerous thing with style is what I call art."
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"I wasn’t lonely. I experienced no self-pity. I was just caught up in a life in which I could find no meaning."
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"There will always be something to ruin our lives, it all depends on what or which finds us first. We are always ripe and ready to be taken."
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"There are times when those eyes inside your brain stare back at you."
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"American women drove hard bargains and the ended up looking the worst for it. The few natural American women left were mostly in Texas and Louisiana."
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"Look, let me put it this way: with me, you’re number one and there isn’t even a number two."
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"Never trust a man in a jumpsuit"
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"Knowledge without follow-through is worse than no knowledge."
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"We are like roses that have never bothered to bloom when we should have bloomed and it is as if the sun has become disgusted with waiting"
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"Each person is only given so many evenings and each wasted evening is a gross violation against the natural course of your only life."
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"I don't know about other people, but when I wake up in the morning and put my shoes on, I think, Jesus Christ, now what?"
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"Play the Piano Drunk Like a Percussion Instrument Until the Fingers Begin to Bleed a Bit."
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"we only asked for leopards to guard our thinning dreams."
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"magic persists without us no matter what we may do to try to spoil it"
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"Human relationships didn't work anyhow. Only the first two weeks had any zing, then the participants lost their interest. Masks dropped away and real people began to appear: cranks, imbeciles, the demented, the vengeful, sadists, killers. Modern society had created its own kind and they feasted on each other. It was a duel to the death--in a cesspool."
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"and when love came to us twice and lied to us twice we decided to never love again that was fair fair to us and fair to love itself. we ask for no mercy or no miracles; we are strong enough to live and to die and to kill flies, attend the boxing matches, go to the racetrack, live on luck and skill, get alone, get alone often, and if you can't sleep alone be careful of the words you speak in your sleep; and ask for no mercy no miracles; and don't forget: time is meant to be wasted, love fails and death is useless."
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