"...morning is the soul's night."
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"I had four hundred thousand pages of continental philosophy and lit theory in my head. And by God, I was going to use it to prove to him that I was smarter than he was."
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"every failure is also a victory."
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"...the sun would leave my sky if I couldn't assume you'd simply come and tell me you were sad."
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"I am not what you see and hear."
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"My bones are ringing the way sometimes people say their ears are ringing, I'm so tired."
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"Words and a book and a belief that the world is words."
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"Beauty is not the goal of competitive sports, but high-level sports are a prime venue for the expression of human beauty."
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"There are secrets within secrets, though--always."
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"There are no choices without personal freedom, Buckeroo. It's not us who are dead inside. These things you find so weak and contemptible in us - these are just the hazards of being free."
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"He didn't reject the idea so much as not react to it and watch as it floated away. He thought very broadly of desires and ideas being watched but not acted upon, he thought of impulses being starved of expression and dying out and floating dryly away."
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"We will, of course, without hesitation use art to parody, ridicule, debunk, or criticize ideologies."
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"Do not underestimate objects."
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"America, as everybody knows, is a country of many contradictions, and a big contradiction for a long time has been between a very aggressive form of capitalism and consumerism against what might be called a kind of moral or civic impulse."
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"The first time I lay actual eyes on the real David Lynch on the set of his movie, he's peeing on a tree...Mr. David Lynch, a prodigious coffee drinker, apparently pees hard and often."
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"If you've never wept and want to, have a child."
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"The point is that petty, frustrating crap like this is exactly where the work of choosing comes in. Because the traffic jams and crowded aisles and long checkout lines give me time to think, and if I don't make a conscious decision about how to think and what to pay attention to, I'm going to be pissed and miserable every time I have to food-shop, because my natural default-setting is the certainty that situations like this are really all about me, about my hungriness and my fatigue and my desire to just get home."
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"....basically the sort of guy who looks entirely at home in sockless white loafers and a mint-green knit shirt from Lacoste."
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"Probably the most dangerous thing about college education, at least in my own case, is that it enables my tendency to over-intellectualize stuff, to get lost in abstract arguments inside my head instead of simply paying attention to what's going on right in front of me. TC mark"
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"Who would die for this chance to be fed this death of pleasure with spoons, in their warm homes, alone, unmoving?"
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