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““We return you to the Vice President, who is now addressing the National Sword Swallowers Association." "-the psychotics, the sob sisters, the skin merchants, the saboteurs, the self-styled Sapphos, the self-styled Swinburners, the swine, the satyrs, the schizos, the sodomists, the sissies, the screamers, the screwy, the scum, the self-congratulatory self-congratulators, the sensationalists, the snakes in the grass, the sex fiends, the shiftless, the shines, the shaggy, the sickly, the syphilitic-””

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“There are no reasons. She is obliged to be as she is. We all are. Reasons are in books.”

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“As far as I can see there is no conquering or exorcising the past with words - words born either of imagination or forthrightness.”

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“What is astonishing is that we, who had no idea how anything was going to turn out, now know exactly what happened.”

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“Good Christ, a Jewish man with parents alive is a fifteen-year-old boy, and will remain a fifteen-year-old boy till they die!”

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I am the Raskolnikov of jerking off – the sticky evidence is everywhere!

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