Everything is contingent, and there is also chaos.
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I fantasize about going back to high school with the knowledge I have now. I would shine. I would have a good time, I would have a girlfriend. I think that's where a lot of my pain comes from. I think I never had any teenage years to go back to.
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NEW YORK (CNN) -- In his monologue Swimming to Cambodia, ... Thailand, the Pure Land.
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What's so fascinating about New Yorkers is that each person has a whole lexicon of personal logic in the way that they decipher and do what has to be done to enjoy, stay alive, take pleasure in this place. It's one of the few living cities where people are living in the city that they work in. You know, that's amazing in itself.
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I say that I can't make anything up. I think of myself as a collage artist. I'm cutting and pasting memories of my life. And I say, I have to live a life in order to tell a life. I would prefer to tell it because telling you're always in control, you're like God.
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Recuperating in an Irish hospital, he is, characteristically, surrounded not by sterility but by eccentricity a transvestite with green fingernails offering toast and tea, followed by a survey-taker. ( Do I want the hospital to be smoke-free ... Because the only sin is hurting someone, and I've never hurt anyone, so I'm not afraid.
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