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A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.
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A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally stopping before it gets there.
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A lasting marriage, they say, is one where the two reach for different sections of the Sunday paper. Me, I go right for the obituaries, just like those very elderly characters in Muriel Spark's spooky novel, 'Memento Mori.'
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A liar begins with making falsehood appear like truth, and ends with making truth itself appear like falsehood.
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A little of what you call frippery is very necessary towards looking like the rest of the world.
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A lonely man is a lonesome thing, a stone, a bone, a stick, a receptacle for Gilbey's gin, a stooped figure sitting at the edge of a hotel bed, heaving copious sighs like the autumn wind.
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A lot of 18-year-olds are like old men. They think they've seen everything.
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A lot of female comedians will go up there in a sweatshirt and Converses, trying to dress themselves down, because it is sort of a boy's club. I'll go up in my heels. I like that people don't think I'll be funny. I'll take that on. I don't do standup comedy - I do standup and I do comedy, but I don't go up there and do jokes.
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A lot of movies are about life, mine are like a slice of cake.
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A lot of my music that I like puts energy in your body or makes you want to dance or break something or just go mosh or jump around.
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A lot of my poems either have historical sequences or other kinds of chronological grids where I'm locating myself in time. I like to feel oriented, and I like to orient the reader at the beginning of a poem.
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A lot of people can't stand touring but to me it's like breathing. I do it because I'm driven to do it.
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A lot of people don't know what it's like to actually be hungry. I do. I've also slept on the streets.
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A lovely thing about Christmas is that it's compulsory, like a thunderstorm, and we all go through it together.
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A man can't pass on, like a mother could, an awareness of your body, or sensuality, or what it means to be a woman. I was never taught what femininity was. I learnt it - or rather I invented it - on my own. I tended not to talk at all, if people were staring at me.
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A man in love is like a clipped coupon - it's time to cash in.
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A man is like a fraction whose numerator is what he is and whose denominator is what he thinks of himself. The larger the denominator the smaller the fraction.
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A man knows when he is growing old because he begins to look like his father.
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A man that hoards up riches and enjoys them not, is like an ass that carries gold and eats thistles.
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