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“All lies are told with a straight face. It is truth that's said with a dismissive giggle.”
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“The more you work with your dreams and your unconscious, and honor it, the more you understand it and it understands you. When you develop a relationship with your psyche this way, you begin to carry that energy into life and your relationships.”
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“Once on the streets of New York a woman called the police because her child spoke to me.”
Source : "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com. 
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“I didn't think it was my job to accept what everyone said I was and who I should be.”
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“There are men whom you will never dislodge from an opinion, except by taking possession of it yourself.”
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“In the course of an average lifetime anyone growing up in a house with such a clock will hear the tune over a million times.”
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“The focus of all life is its economy, the mode through which every living creature produces its material existence. I know no other criterion for the evaluation of social life except that of social economy. In society, just like anywhere else, the mode of production is the focus around which revolve all the modes of life: in the historical life of conscious beings, it is also the focus of all modes of consciousness.”
Source : "Briefwechsel". Book by Moses Hess, p. 253, 1959.
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“I am not a painter. I am a poet. / Why? I think I would rather be / a painter, but I am not.”
Source : Frank O'Hara (1995). “The Collected Poems of Frank O'Hara”, p.261, Univ of California Press
