"Once you know what women are like, men get kind of boring. I'm not trying to put them down, I mean I like them sometimes as people, but sexually they're dull."
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"In America the word revolutionary is used to sell pantyhose."
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"The only people are those who don't love anybody."
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"Intuition is a suspension of logic due to impatience."
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"Life is unjust, people can be cruel, and yet if you harden your heart, you will lose what little love there is in this world."
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"I'm not a person who worries too much about what I've done."
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"All creatures tread across the rubble of ruined civilizations. The trick is to keep moving. No animal ever goes about dispensing shallow compassion."
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"I don't think there is a 'gay lifestyle.' I think that's superficial crap, all that talk about gay culture. A couple of restaurants on Castro Street and a couple of magazines do not constitute culture. Michelangelo is culture. Virginia Woolf is culture. So let's don't confuse our terms. Wearing earrings is not culture."
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"Any woman whose I.Q. hovers above her body temperature must be a feminist."
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"...funny how people want a return to the good ole days. Of coarse the good ole days of being a rich white plantation owner. Everyone seems to forget the poor white farmer."
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"The human animal dances wildest on the edge of the grave."
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"It doesn't matter to me. We're still cousins in our own way. Blood's just something old people talk about to make you feel bad."
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"Divorce: fission after fusion."
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"Familiarity breeds consent."
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"Computer dating is fine, if you're a computer."
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"One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife."
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"If you don't like my book, write your own. If you don't think you can write a novel, that ought to tell you something. If you think you can, do. No excuses. If you still don't like my novel, find a book you do like. Life is too short to be miserable. If you do like my novels, I commend your good taste."
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"Youth moves out, leaving no forwarding address. No matter how you try, you can't reach that person again or that place."
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"Class is much more than Marx's definition of relationship to the means of production. Class involved your behavior, your basic assumptions, how you are taught to behave, what you expect from yourself and from others, your concept of a future, how you understand problems and solve them, how you think, feel, act."
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"The process of writing, any form of creativity, is a power intensifying life."
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