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" Your life story would not make a good book. Don't even try. "
Fran Lebowitz
Life Story
Life
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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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" I never took hallucinogenic drugs because I never wanted my consciousness expanded one unnecessary iota. "
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" Romantic love is mental illness. But it's a pleasurable one. It's a drug. It distorts reality, and that's the point of it. It would be impossible to fall in love with someone that you really saw. "
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