All morons hate it when you call them a moron.

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Who in the Bible besides Jesus knew--knew--that we're carrying the Kingdom of Heaven around with us, inside, where we're all too goddam stupid and sentimental and unimaginative to look?

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It's funny. All you have to do is say something nobody understands and they'll do practically anything you want them to.

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She wasn't doing a thing that I could see, except standing there leaning on the balcony railing, holding the universe together.

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The more expensive a school is, the more crooks it has — I'm not kidding.

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Know your true measurements and dress your mind accordingly

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Poets are always taking the weather so personally. They're always sticking their emotions in things that have no emotions.

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I am a kind of paranoid in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.

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You think of the book you'd most like to be reading, and then you sit down and shamelessly write it.

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One day a long time from now you'll cease to care anymore whom you please or what anybody has to say about you. That's when you'll finally produce the work you're capable of.

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