"Jay Sebring cut my hair a couple of times."
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"I'd met Sharon Tate at the Cannes Film Festival."
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"Lee Harvey Oswald was boiling over about everything: the American ambassador; the Russians-he was mad at them because they wouldn't let him stay in Moscow. We talked to him for about half an hour, and my Italian friend didn't think the guy was worth filing a story about. Just another paranoid hysteric; the Moscow woods were rampant with those. I never thought about him again, not until many years later. Not until after the assassination when I saw his picture flashed on television."
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"That's the question: is truth an illusion, or is illusion truth, or are they essentially the same? Myself, I don't care what anybody says about me as long as it isn't true."
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"New York is a diamond iceberg floating in river water."
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"The feeble-minded, the neurotic, the criminal, perhaps, also, the artist, have unpredictability and perverted innocence in common."
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"You don't understand. You've never hated anybody. No, I never have. We're allotted just so much time on earth, and I wouldn't want the Lord to see me wasting mine in any such manner."
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"I couldn't understand a sense of unease that multiplied until I could hear my heart beating."
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"I've tried to believe, but I don't, I can't, and there's no use pretending."
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"What I do requires fantastic concentration... but you can't be totally alone, or you lose all contact with reality, so even when I'm engrossed and secluded, Jack Dunphy can be there. He's my oldest and best friend, and best critic too."
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"I never had a rejection slip in my life."
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"I've never been a teacher in my life."
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"If you sweep a house, and tend its fires and fill its stove, and there is love in you all the years you are doing this, then you and that house are married, that house is yours."
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"I think to be a good teacher you need an enormous amount of patience and I'm a very impatient person."
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"would you reach in the drawer there and give me my purse. A girl doesn't read this sort of thing without her lipstick."
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"I've never worked for a newspaper. I've had some very bad reviews in newspapers."
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"I feel that all a writer has is his own experience."
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"I'm scarcely an enfant!"
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"I'm not a philosopher."
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"I'm not a character in any of my books."
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