"Maybe there is no better novel in the……" — John Waters
"Maybe there is no better novel in the world than Denton Welch's In Youth Is Pleasure. Just holding it in my hands, so precious, so beyond gay, so deliciously subversive, is enough to make illiteracy a worse social crime than hunger."
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103 Quotes by John Waters
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As far as socially redeeming value, I hope I don't have any.
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Some call me director, producer, filmmaker. I prefer to call myself pube-king.
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Wouldn't you rather your kid be a drug dealer than a drug addict?
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I went to a Catholic high school, which, to this day, I could burn down. And I got great revenge…
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Going to a sensational murder trial is the only way I can relax.
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I used to joke that I was trying to sell out, and nobody would buy me.
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I don't believe in depression. There's no such thing. It's an invention. It's bullshit, it's a cop out.
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And I seek people who break rules with happiness — and not bringing pain to themselves.
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