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The suicide does not play the game, does not observe the rules. He leaves the party too soon, and leaves the other…
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The institution of marriage is just formalizing an emotion, an attempt to make it seem permanent. The emotion will last or it…
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I write so much because my cat sits on my lap. She purrs so I don't want to get up. She's so…
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The body can't distinguish between cleansing and punishing for the body is ignorant, and mute besides.
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Alone, she took hot baths and sat exhausted in the steaming water, wondering at her perpetual exhaustion. All that winter she noticed…
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Blood transforms the warm bath water and, in it, I see weakly that this was a mistake. The razor's cut is not…
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The brain is a muscle of busy hills, the struggle of unthought things with things eternally thought.
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The mere passage of time makes us all exiles.
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Running! If there's any activity happier, more exhilarating, more nourishing to the imagination, I can't think of what it might be.
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Of the widow's countless death-duties there is really just one that matters: on the first anniversary of her husband's death the widow…
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Critics sometimes appear to be addressing themselves to works other than those I remember writing.
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We are the species that clamors to be lied to.
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I remember my comic strips being called 'new wave.' It bugged me.
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While editors and newspaper owners currently fret over shrinking readership and lost profits, they do the one thing that insures cutting their…
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In comic strips, the person on the left always speaks first.
— George Carlin
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Commercial jazz, soap opera, pulp fiction, comic strips, the movies set the images, mannerisms, standards, and aims of the urban masses. In…
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I remember back when I was a kid there was a comic strip called Plastic Man. His body was elastic and he…
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Along with all else, Sandman is a comic strip for intellectuals, and I say it's about time.
— Norman Mailer
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To live in society today is like living in one enormous comic-strip.
— Jean-Luc Godard
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If you want to see a comic strip, you should see me in the shower.
— Groucho Marx
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I was an avid radio fan when I was a boy, as well as a great lover of comic strips
— Guillermo Cabrera Infante
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It's really a pity that there are observers who view political events like comic strips. There has to be a Zorro, there…
— Thomas Sankara
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Looking back Little Lulu was an early feminist, but at the time I just thought she was a really feisty developed comic…
— Bill Griffith
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