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My mind leaps to my theory about presidents - that there are two kinds, ones who have a lot of sex and the others who start wars. In short - and don't quote me, because this is an incomplete expression of a more complex premise - I believe blow jobs prevent war.

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I'm feeling how profoundly my family disappointed me and in the end how I retreated, how I became nothing, because that was much less risky than attempting to be something, to be anything in the face of such contempt.

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People should pay more attention. Everyone wants attention, but no one wants to give attention.

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Sometimes you can do things for others that you can't do for yourself.

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Was this the big one or was this the small tremor, the warning? Does it get better - does the sensation of being in a dream underwater go away?

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Are you really gay?
Yes.
Do you think you were born gay or became gay?
Are you asking because you want to know if it's you fault?
I suppose.
To one degree or another, I'm sure it's you fault. Feel better now?

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That's the thing about L. A.- you can freeze to death under a rosebush, Richard says.

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I'm nothing you can catch now. I am black powder, I am singe, I am the bomb that bursts the night.

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It annoys the hell out of me when people say, This is the kitchen, and this is the bathroom. What am I, Helen Keller? I mean, it's pretty obvious when you're in a kitchen and when you're not.

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A lot of people get flipped out if you're quiet. They say stuff like, What are you thinking? And if they don't start interrogating you, they start talking, going on and on about stuff that's totally irrelevant, and the silence gets so big and loud that it's scary.

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