The future is the worst thing about the present.
Gustave Flaubert
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I think it's very clear that the American people are frustrated with this move toward socialism. And so whether you're back or white, if you believe that the conservative construct is in the best interest of our future, than you too would be voting with Republicans, and if you had the opportunity to run you'd join us as well. -
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- Oh, if I had been loved at the age of seventeen, what an idiot I would be today. Happiness is like smallpox: if you catch it too soon, it can completely ruin your constitution.
- I have the handicap of being born with a special language to which I alone have the key.
- Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything.
- Of all lies, art is the least untrue.
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