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“Kids, Madison Avenue is lying to you. Your parents are lying to you. The president is lying to you.”
Source : Interview with Jason Heller, tv.avclub.com. March 29, 2007. 
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“I mean, I'd love to have a private jet - I know people who fly by private jet all the time... I've hitched a ride a few times and it is not overrated at all; it's a great way to travel!”
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“The lifeblood of Christianity is not our persistence in moving toward God but God's persistence in moving toward us.”
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“It is a cliche these days to observe that the United States now possesses a global empire - different from Britain's and Rome's but an empire nonetheless.”
Source : "Islam versus the West". Interview with Amanda Griscom-Little, www.rollingstone.com. August 7, 2003.
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“Writers are outsiders, and usually not by their own choosing. It’s why they’re writers. If they didn’t feel alienated from human experience, they wouldn’t feel so drawn to writing to make sense of their lives. It’s not the outsider’s facility for language that makes her a writer — many a student body president or homecoming queen can turn a phrase — but her ability to howl at the moon, on the page.”
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“The witching hour, somebody had once whispered to her, was a special moment in the middle of the night when every child and every grown-up was in a deep deep sleep, and all the dark things came out from hiding and had the world all to themselves.”
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“Fictions of law must be consistent with justice.”
Source : Whitaker v. Wisbey, 6 Cox, C. C. 111, 1852.
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“I have an eye for new and refreshing talent,”
Source : "Fictional character: Liberace". "Behind the Candelabra", www.imdb.com. 2013.
