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Of course, I also hear from critics who detest what I do, and while sometimes I feel rather proud of having made various the loathsome people or groups angry, at other times I wonder why I put up with such grief.

Also Angry Course Critics
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Notoriety and public confession in the literary form is a frazzler of the heart you were born with, believe me.

Believe Born Confession Form
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If you were on the phone with me and Tommy right now, we would probably forget you were there, we'd just be cracking jokes. It's like Beavis and Butthead.

Cracking Forget Jokes Just
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I harbored a lot of resentment as a teenager and as a young adult. I still have a problem with authority, I'm trying to listen!
Adult Authority Listen Lot
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I didn't dictate sections of 'Visions of Cody.' I typed up a segment of taped conversation with Neal Cassady, or Cody, talking about his early adventures in L.A.

About Adventures Conversation Dictate
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To try to become happy is to try to build a machine with no other specifications than it shall run noiselessly.

Become Build Happy Machine
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Culture's worth huge, huge risks. Without culture we're all totalitarian beasts.

Beasts Culture Huge Risks
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As a medical doctor, it is my duty to evaluate the situation with as much data as I can gather and as much expertise as I have and as much experience as I have to determine whether or not the wish of the patient is medically justified.

Data Determine Doctor Duty
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Some kid gets his first iPhone, signs up to Twitter, and then tweets, 'Nikki Sixx sucks.' And I'm supposed to take that personally.

First Gets His IPhone
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With the pride of the artist, you must blow against the walls of every power that exists the small trumpet of your defiance.

Against Artist Blow Defiance
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There are four stages in a marriage. First there's the affair, then the marriage, then children and finally the fourth stage, without which you cannot know a woman, the divorce.

Affair Cannot Children Divorce
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If you don't deal with your demons, they will deal with you, and it's gonna hurt.

Deal Demons Gonna Hurt
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One thing I've always loved doing is hanging out and talking music with other artists.

Always Artists Doing Hanging
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Ultimately a hero is a man who would argue with the gods, and so awakens devils to contest his vision. The more a man can achieve, the more he may be certain that the devil will inhabit a part of his creation.

Achieve Argue Awakens Certain
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Listen, when you take my liberty away, you've taken away more-something more precious than life. I mean, what good is a life without liberty? Huh? None.

Away Good Liberty Life
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The American people are sheep. They're comfortable, rich, working. It's like the Romans, they're happy with bread and their spectator sports. The Super Bowl means more to them than any right.

American American People Any Bowl
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What are friends? Some people are nice. Some people aren't. There are some I'm fairly close with... we talk.

Close Fairly Friends Nice
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Each day a few more lies eat into the seed with which we are born, little institutional lies from the print of newspapers, the shock waves of television, and the sentimental cheats of the movie screen.

Born Cheats Day Each
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I gambled and I lost. I failed in securing my options for this choice for myself, but I succeeded in verifying the Dark Age is still with us.

Age Choice Dark Failed
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I'm trying to knock the medical profession into accepting its responsibilities, and those responsibilities include assisting their patients with death.

Accepting Death Include Knock
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Anytime you interfere with a natural process, you're playing God. God determines what happens naturally. That means when a person's ill, he shouldn't go to a doctor because he's asking for interference with God's will. But of course, patients can't think that way.

Anytime Asking Because Course
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I have a natural right to do whatever I want with my body... as long as it doesn't affect anybody else or any other property.

Affect Any Anybody Anybody Else
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I would not want to live with a tube in my neck and not be able to move a finger. I wouldn't - that to me is not life.

Able Finger Life Live
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Masculinity is not something given to you, but something you gain. And you gain it by winning small battles with honor.
Battles Gain Given Honor
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Obsession is the single most wasteful human activity, because with an obsession you keep coming back and back and back to the same question and never get an answer.

Activity Answer Back Because
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Beware of men who cry. It's true that men who cry are sensitive to and in touch with feelings, but the only feelings they tend to be sensitive to and in touch with are their own.

Beware Cry Feelings Men
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With any child entering adolescence, one hunts for signs of health, is desperate for the smallest indication that the child's problems will never be important enough for a television movie.

Adolescence Any Child Desperate
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When you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible.

Life Possible Realize Rest
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Real love begins from within.
Real love Within Begins
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Be comfortable with your dreams only when they are big enough to scare you.

Your dream Be comfortable Scare you Big
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Twitter is a really good place to take notes

Twitter Good place Take note
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The realization that I may have only a few good years remaining has hit me with real force, and I have done a lot of thinking as a result. I would like to have come up with something profound, but I haven't.

Come Done Few Force
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But in fantasy, you can make a complete break, and you can put people in a situation where they are confronted with things that they would not confront in the real world

Fantasy Complete break Situation
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People are people, messy and mutable, combining differently with one another from day to day - even hour to hour.

People Messy Mutable Combining differently
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What it boils down to is that parenting a child with autism is a difficult job; writing about it is far easier

Boil down Parenting Autism
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You can't pee like a puppy if you wanna run with the big dogs.

Big Dogs Like Puppy
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I just need to figure out how to grow without compromising.

Just need Figure out Grow Without compromising
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Nothing like mashed potatoes when you're feeling blue. Nothing like getting into bed with a bowl of hot mashed potatoes already loaded with butter, and methodically adding a thin, cold slice of butter to every forkful.

Adding Bed Blue Bowl
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Laugh, and the world laughs with you; Weep, and you weep alone; For the sad old earth must borrow its mirth, But has trouble enough of its own.

Laugh World Weep Borrow
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Always continue the climb. It is possible for you to do whatever you choose, if you first get to know who you are and are willing to work with a power that is greater than ourselves to do it.

Always continue Climb Possible
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I grew up with fantastic Southern food. In Southern California.

California Fantastic Food Grew
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We two make banquets of the plainest fare In every cup we find the thrill of pleasure... For us life always moves with lilting measure We two, we two, we make our world, our pleasure

Make banquets Pleasure Life
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Talk happiness. The world is sad enough Without your woe. No path is wholly rough.

Talk happiness World Path
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I love your lips when they're wet with wine and red with wicked desire

Love Lips Wine Wicked desire
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With care, and skill, and cunning art, She parried Time's malicious dart, And kept the years at bay, Till passion entered in her heart and aged her in a day!

Care Cunning art Malicious Years
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I really don’t think I need buns of steel. I’d be happy with buns of cinnamon.

Really Think Burns of steel
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I don't think any day is worth living without thinking about what you're going to eat next at all times.

About Any Day Eat
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I have now been married to my third husband for more than 20 years. But when you've had children with someone you're divorced from, divorce defines everything; it's the lurking fact, a slice of anger in the pie of your brain.

Anger Been Brain Children
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One good thing I'd like to say about divorce is that it sometimes makes it possible for you to be a much better wife to your next husband because you have a place for your anger - it's not directed at the person you're currently with.

About Anger Because Better
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I think they should have a Barbie with a buzz cut.

I think Have Barbie Buzz cut
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