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“They drummed you out of Hollywood, so you come crawling back to Broadway. But Broadway doesn't go for booze and dope. Now get out of my way, I've got a man waiting for me.”
― Jacqueline Susann, Valley of the Dolls

“So although in one language, humankind is forbidden to eat the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge, in the other it is not only permitted, it is encouraged. That is precisely what that goddamn tree is there for, for humankind to suck from its fruit, and suck and suck and suck and suck, thirty times a day if necessary.”
― Tomson Highway, Me Sexy: An Exploration of Native Sex and Sexuality

“You have everything but one thing: madness. A man needs a little madness or else - he never dares cut the rope and be free.”
― Nikos Kazantzakis, Zorba the Greek

“Books and all forms of writing are terror to those who wish to suppress truth.”
― Wole Soyinka, Selected Poems