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“I will not have my life narrowed down. I will not bow down to somebody else's whim or to someone else's ignorance.”
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“Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity.”
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“My first time I jacked off, I thought I'd invented it. I looked down at my sloppy handful of junk and thought, This is going to make me rich.”
― Choke
― Choke
“Girls can wear jeans and cut their hair short and wear shirts and boots because it's okay to be a boy; for girls it's like promotion. But for a boy to look like a girl is degrading, according to you, because secretly you believe that being a girl is degrading.”
― The Cement Garden
― The Cement Garden
“A good speech should be like a woman's skirt; long enough to cover the subject and short enough to create interest.”
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