"It’s like—I don’t know, sometimes it’s like chasing a pretty girl on the beach. And things I never thought I could do…I can do."

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“Well, the night makes moves”

“I'm sort of planting Post-It notes all over my psyche. Do not skateboard wasted. Do not buy $10,000 rugs. Be careful what you say to journalists. You don't have to stay up until 7 A.M. - tomorrow is a new day.”

“If I had a reed made of lightening I could blow the sax all night... I don't know where one would acquire a reed made of lightening but I would imagine that Bill Clinton has one.”

“And I'm tired of living here in this hotel,Snow and the rain falling through the sheets.In fact, I'm tired of 23rd Street.Strung out like some Christmas lightsOut there in the Chelsea night.”

“Note to self: don't change for anyone”

“Hope this place don't never change”

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— Christopher Hitchens

Philosophy1949–2011

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"This sense of things...getting out of control very quickly is a lesson that we’ve forgotten. I hope we don’t learn it in the wrong way. This is what you’re risking when you talk about fire and fury."

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"If our fathers, in 1776, had acknowledged the principle that a majority had the right to rule the minority, we should never have become a nation; for they were in a small minority, as compared with th…"

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