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- Being a nerd, which is to say going too far and caring too much about a subject, is the best way to make friends I…
- There are people who look forward to spending their sunset years in the sunshine; it is my own retirement dream to await my death indoors,…
- Presidents and presidential assassins are like Las Vegas and Salt Lake City. Even though one city is all about sin and the other is all…
- While I gave up God a long time ago, I never shook the habit of wanting to believe in something. So I replaced my creed…
- I talk about going to [George W. Bush's] Inauguration and crying when he took the oath, 'cause I was so afraid he was going to…
- Once or twice a day, I am enveloped inside what I like to call the Impenetrable Shield of Melancholy. This shield, it is impenetrable. Hence…
- Winthrop and his shipmates and their children and their children's children just wrote their own books and pretty much kept their noses in them up…
- In the U.S.A., we want to sing along with the chorus and ignore the verses, ignore the blues. . . No one is going to…
- Until that moment, I hadn’t realized that I embarked on the project of touring historic sites and monuments having to do with the assassinations of…
- If I'm still wistful about On the Road, I look on the rest of the Kerouac oeuvre--the poems, the poems!--in horror. Read Satori in Paris…
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- All virtue is summed up in dealing justly. — Aristotle
- Growing up, my ideals were Barbra Streisand, Cher, and my mom. — Kevyn Aucoin
- When I was growing up, the men in my life were abusive; women were the ones I ran to for comfort. — Kevyn Aucoin
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- I write the paragraph, then I'm crossing out, changing words, trying to improve it. When it seems more or less OK, then… — Paul Auster
- Get this in mind early: We never grow up. — Richard Bach
- People are so damned afraid that one day they might wake up and discover that they've grown old. — Billie Joe Armstrong