The worst thing that being an artist could do to you would be that it would make you slightly unhappy constantly.
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What I like best is a book that's at least funny once in a while.... What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone...J. D. Salinger
People never believe you.
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I'm sick of just liking people. I wish to God I could meet somebody I could respect.
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Some of my best friedns are children. In fact, all of my best friends are children.
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Boy, when you are dead, they really fix you up. I hope to hell when I do die somebody has sense enough to just dump me in the river or something. Anything except sticking me in a god dam cemetery. People coming and putting a bunch of flowers on your stomach on Sunday and all that crap. Who wants flowers when you are dead Nobody.
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