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“This idea that people have to love and understand each other is absurd. It's not human nature.”

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[Friendships] are easy to get out of compared to love affairs, but they are not easy to get out of compared to, say, jail.

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Smoking is, as far as I'm concerned, the entire point of being an adult.

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Solitude produces originality, bold and astonishing beauty, poetry. But solitude also produces perverseness, the disproportianate, the absurd and the forbidden.

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