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What a fool I would have been to let self-respect interfere with my happiness!


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True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.

True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.



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We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend to be.



There is a tragic flaw in our precious constitution, and I don't know what can be done to fix it. This is it: Only nut cases want to be president.

There is a tragic flaw in our precious constitution, and I don't know what can be done to fix it. This is it: Only nut cases want to be president.



I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all the kinds of things you can't see from the center.

I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all the kinds of things you can't see from the center.



He didn't look like a soldier at all. He looked like a filthy flamingo.

He didn't look like a soldier at all. He looked like a filthy flamingo.



Any reviewer who expresses rage and loathing for a novel is preposterous. He or she is like a person who has put on full armor and attacked a hot fudge sundae.

Any reviewer who expresses rage and loathing for a novel is preposterous. He or she is like a person who has put on full armor and attacked a hot fudge sundae.



Perhaps I am the turtle, able to live simply anywhere, even underwater for short periods, with my home on my back.

Perhaps I am the turtle, able to live simply anywhere, even underwater for short periods, with my home on my back.



About astrology and palmistry: they are good because they make people vivid and full of possibilities. They are communism at its best. Everybody has a birthday and almost everybody has a palm.

About astrology and palmistry: they are good because they make people vivid and full of possibilities. They are communism at its best. Everybody has a birthday and almost everybody has a palm.



We are here on Earth to fart around. Don't let anybody tell you any different.

We are here on Earth to fart around. Don't let anybody tell you any different.



Enjoy your body, use it every way you can. Don’t be afraid of it, or what other people think of it, it’s the greatest instrument you’ll ever own.

Enjoy your body, use it every way you can. Don’t be afraid of it, or what other people think of it, it’s the greatest instrument you’ll ever own.





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Stretched out in front of me was my time as an adult, and then a skeleton, and then nothing except perhaps a few books on a few shelves.

Stretched out in front of me was my time as an adult, and then a skeleton, and then nothing except perhaps a few books on a few shelves.



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