"Perhaps the least cheering statement ever made on the subject of art is that life imitates it."
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"A dog who thinks he is a man's best friend is a dog who obviously has never met a tax lawyer."
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"I'm like the laziest person who ever lived. It's amazing to me I even sit up."
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"It is not true that there is dignity in all work. Some jobs are definitely better than others.... People who have good jobs are happy, rich, and well dressed. People who have bad jobs are unhappy, poor and use meat extenders. Those who seek dignity in the type of work that compels them to help hamburgers are certain to be disappointed."
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"I always make a big effort to make a distinction between what is actually worse or what is just worse about not being 21. Of course, it's much worse not to be 21. This is a given. But there are things that are worse."
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"Now people need special costumes to ride bicycles. I mean, a helmet, what, are you an astronaut??"
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"Food is definitely important part of your balanced diet."
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"If you want to get ahead in this world get a lawyer -- not a book."
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"New York City is filled with the same kind of people I left New Jersey to get away from."
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"Most writers write too much. I have the exact opposite problem. I feel I could write almost anything in a paragraph. I have a natural ability to condense, and so I often think, "Are you kidding me? Five thousand words? How am I gonna make 5,000 words out of that?""
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"Writing is so hard. Why would you be a writer if you weren't really good at it? If you could be anything else, why would you be a writer?"
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"Smoking is the great romance of my lifetime. If I could find someone I wanted forty-five times a day, perhaps I could stop."
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"I have a hard time writing. Most writers have a hard time writing. I have a harder time than most because I'm lazier than most. I don't want to brag, but I'm the laziest person I have ever known."
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"[On the writers she admires:] I prefer dead writers, because I don't see them at parties."
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"To lose yourself in a book is the desire of the bookworm. I mean to be taken. That is my desire."
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"The Word Lady: Most Often Used to Describe Someone You Wouldn't Want to Talk to for Even Five Minutes."
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"When you reach a certain age, suddenly there are lots of people younger than you, which is really startling."
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"I always liked people who are older. Of course, every year it gets harder to find them."
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"Generally speaking, it is inhumane to detain a fleeting insight."
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"Did it ever occur to anyone that if you put nice libraries in public schools you wouldn't have to put them in prisons?"
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