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Frank Zappa
“The more boring a child is, the more the parents, when showing off the child, receive adulation for being good parents — because they have a tame child-creature in their house.”
Frank Zappa

Charles Bukowski
“The trouble with these people is that their cities have never been bombed and their mothers have never been told to shut up.”
Charles Bukowski

John Cheever
“For lovers, touch is metamorphosis. All the parts of their bodies seem to change, and they seem to become something different and better.”
John Cheever

John Cheever
“I've been homesick for countries I've never been, and longed to be where I couldn't be.”
John Cheever

Orson Welles
“If there hadn't been women we'd still be squatting in a cave eating raw meat, because we made civilization in order to impress our girlfriends.”
Orson Welles

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