"if you live in New York and you have a guest room, you have guests. So I think it's best not to have a guest room."
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"There's nothing like being old to be sure of everything."
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"I hate, simply, to work. I just hate to work, period. I am profoundly slothful. Practically inert."
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"In fact, we live in a culture where intelligence, exceptional or not, is reviled."
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"When Toni Morrison said 'write the book you want to read,' she didn't mean everybody."
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"I have always preferred the company of older people. No one in the history of the world has had less interest in the young than I do. I am not interested in what young people are thinking. They're thinking less than old people, of course. I mean, what could they be thinking? And what are they doing? They're doing the same stupid things you did."
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"Once you go outside your natural audience, there are tons of people that don't like you."
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"I used to love to write. As a child I used to write all the time. I loved to write up until the second I got my first professional writing job. It turns out it's not that I hate to write. I hate, simply, to work."
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"I drove a cab. But all the girls I knew when I was young who had to work - there were rich girls - but the ones who had to work were waitresses. Because you could always get shifts in a restaurant."
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"Twenty-four-hour room service generally refers to the length of time that it takes for the club sandwich to arrive. This is indeeddisheartening, particularly when you've ordered scrambled eggs."
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"I hate all jobs. I've never had a job I liked."
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"I never wanted to have any extra money, if it meant having to have any extra work."
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"Smoking is, if not my life, then at least my hobby. I love to smoke. Smoking is fun. Smoking is cool. Smoking is, as far as I am concerned, the entire point of being an adult."
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"I walk a lot in New York, not for the exercise but to get from place to place, and because it's the way of having the least contact with human beings."
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"People care more about trends now than they do about style. They get so wrapped up in what's happening that they forget how to dress, and they never learn who they are because they never learn how to take care of anything."
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"New York was always more expensive than the other places, even when it was going bankrupt. In other words, in 1971, New York was expensive for someone with no money. For anyone."
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"The good thing about being in someone else's apartment is it's so much easier to leave than it is to get someone out."
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"When I was young, I liked romance. But to me, romance is the opposite of domestic life. I just don't want anyone in the apartment, not for longer than a few hours."
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"When I fly, I'm never afraid the plane is going to crash. But there have often been times when I was afraid it wouldn't crash. I was just afraid it was going to circle O'Hare for the rest of my life."
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"I'm sure that being sober all these years accounts for my ill humor."
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