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" If you are of the opinion that the contemplation of suicide is sufficient evidence of a poetic nature, do not forget that actions speak louder than words. "
Fran Lebowitz
Suicide
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" To put it rather bluntly, I am not the type who wants to go back to the land; I am the type who wants to go back to the hotel. "
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" In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra. "
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" Having been unpopular in high school is not just cause for book publications. "
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" I must take issue with the term 'a mere child', for it has been my invariable experience that the company of a mere child is infinitely preferable to that of a mere adult. "
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" Designer clothes worn by children are like snowsuits worn by adults. Few can carry it off successfully. "
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" Scientists - the crowd that for dash and style make the general public look like the Bloomsbury set. "
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" Nature is by and large to be found out of doors, a location where, it cannot be argued, there are never enough comfortable chairs. "
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" You're only as good as your last haircut. "
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" I never met anyone who didn't have a very smart child. What happens to these children, you wonder, when they reach adulthood? "
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" My desire to curtail undue freedom of speech extends only to such public areas as restaurants, airports, streets, hotel lobbies, parks, and department stores. Verbal exchanges between consenting adults in private are as of little interest to me as they probably are to them. "
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