"If you're going to America, bring your own food."
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"My desire to curtail undue freedom of speech extends only to such public areas as restaurants, airports, streets, hotel lobbies, parks, and department stores. Verbal exchanges between consenting adults in private are as of little interest to me as they probably are to them."
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"Andy Warhol made fame more famous."
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"It is, in fact, safe to assume that, more often than not, life imitates craft, for who among us can say that our experience does not more closely resemble a macramé plant holder than it does a painting by Seurat. When it comes to art, life is the biggest copycat in the matter of the frame."
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"Romantic love is mental illness. But it's a pleasurable one. It's a drug. It distorts reality, and that's the point of it. It would be impossible to fall in love with someone that you really saw."
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"Do not, on a rainy day, ask your child what he feels like doing, because I assure you that what he feels like doing, you won't feel like watching."
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"Any artist who has that quality of timelessness has that quality because they tell the truth."
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"Marriage entitles women to the protection of a strong man who will steady the stepladder while they paint the kitchen ceiling."
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"Now the culture is made of old things, it's a collage. Art made out of art is not art. You're supposed to make art out of life."
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"If you read a lot, nothing is as great as you've imagined. Venice is - Venice is better."
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"Ever since I was a little child, I refused to see movies of books that I loved. Because you already know what Heidi looks like and she doesn't look like Shirley Temple."
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"What starts love is your ability to stupefy and blind yourself to the point of being able to fall in love. What stops it is waking up."
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"All God's children are not beautiful. Most of God's children are, in fact, barely presentable."
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"When I'm supposed to be writing I clean my apartment, take my clothes to the laundry, get organized, make lists, do the dishes. I would never do a dish unless I had to write."
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"The most common error made in matters of appearance is the belief that one should disdain the superficial and let the true beauty of one's soul shine through. If there are places on your body where this is a possibility, you are not attractive - you are leaking."
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"I, unfortunately, take the subway a lot. It's not my preference, but it is my lot in life."
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"Anti-smoking sentiment has replaced middle-class morality entirely. The smoker has taken the place of the homosexual. Today you hear people say things about smokers that used to be said about homosexuals - they pollute the environment; you don't want them around your children."
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"If there were, say, only 10 percent of the hotels that exist now, there would be all these apartments for people who live in New York, as opposed to people visiting New York. And then all this junk in the theater, we would no longer need the kind of stuff that tourists like."
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"I hate writing. I will do anything to avoid it. The only way I could write less was if I was dead."
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"I drank my lifetime supply of alcohol and I took my lifetime supply of drugs between the ages of 15 and 19."
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