I’m just sick of ego, ego, ego. My own and everybody else’s. I’m sick of everybody that wants to get somewhere, do something distinguished and all, be somebody interesting. It’s disgusting.

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The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of the mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one.

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The world is full of actors pretending to be human

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I have so much I want to tell you, and nowhere to begin.

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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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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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If you have something to offer, someone will learn something from you. It's a beautiful reciprocal arrangement. And it isn't education. It's history. It's poetry.

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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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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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