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“If you don't want anyone to know about your existence, you might as well kill yourself. You're taking up space, air.”
― A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
― A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
“How come you don't work fourteen hours a day? Your great-great-grandparents did. How come you only work the eight-hour day? Four guys got hanged fighting for the eight-hour day for you.”
― Touch and Go: A Memoir
― Touch and Go: A Memoir
“Life is rarely about what happened; it's mostly about what we think happened.”
― Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto
― Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto
“You have what I can afford to give. You are a panhandler, begging for anything, and I am the man walking briskly by, tossing a quarter or so into your paper cup. I can afford to give you this. This does not break me.”
― A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
― A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
“Well. If you are worried about the effects of feminism and you are a man, it's probably because you are worried that men will start to be treated like women have been treated since the dawn of time. By this I mean worse, which makes you nervous, no doubt.”
― You Don't Have to Like Me: Essays on Growing Up, Speaking Out, and Finding Feminism
― You Don't Have to Like Me: Essays on Growing Up, Speaking Out, and Finding Feminism
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