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- How do I look so young? Quite simple: a complete vegetable diet, 12 hours sleep a night, and lots and lots of make-up.
- The good thing about masturbation is that you don't have to get dressed up for it.
- A man who doesn't dream is like a man who doesn't sweat. He stores up a lot of poison.
- Poor slob without a name. It's a little inconvenient, his not having a name. But I haven't the right to give him one: he'll have…
- I don't mean I'd mind being rich and famous. That's very much on my schedule, and someday I'll try to get around to it; but…
- Maybe the older you grow and the less easy it is to put thought into action, maybe that’s why it gets all locked up in…
- You call yourself a free spirit, a "wild thing," and you're terrified somebody's gonna stick you in a cage. Well baby, you're already in that…
- It's a very excruciating life facing that blank piece of paper every day and having to reach up somewhere into the clouds and bring something…
- ...of all things this was the saddest, that life goes on: if one leaves one's lover, life should stop for him, and if one disappears…
- Never love a wild thing...If you let yourself love a wild thing. You'll end up looking at the sky.
- And yes, to answer you seriously, I am beginning to be... well, not bored, but tempted; afraid, but tempted. When you've been in pain for…
- To wake up one morning and feel that I was a last a grown-up person, emptied of resentment, vengeful thoughts and other wasteful childish emotions.…
- Never love a wild thing, Mr. Bell,’ Holly advised him. ‘That was Doc’s mistake. He was always lugging home wild things. A hawk with a…
- I want to still be me when I wake up one fine morning and have breakfast at Tiffany´s.
- I thought that Mr. Clutter was a very nice gentleman. I thought so right up to the moment that I cut his throat.
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