"It takes a lot of time to be a genius, you have to sit around so much doing nothing, really doing nothing."

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“They were regular in being gay, they learned little things that are things in being gay, they learned many little things that are things in being gay, they were gay every day, they were regular, they were gay, they were gay the same length of time every day, they were gay, they were quite regularly gay.”

“Suddenly it was all different, what I did had a value that made people ready to pay, up to that time everything I did had a value because nobody was ready to pay. It is funny about money. And it is funny about identity. You are you because your little dog knows you, but when your public knows you and does not want to pay for you and when your public knows you and does want to pay for you, you are not the same you.”

“There is no pulse so sure of the state of a nation as its characteristic art product which has nothing to do with its material life.”

“War is never fatal but always lost. Always lost.”

“Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.”

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