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Our artwork did not hang on the refrigerator or anywhere near it, because our parents recognised it for what it was: crap.
Let's Explore Diabetes with Owls (2013)
"Cut corners and it'll always come back to bite you in the ass." That was one of her sayings.
Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim (2004)
'It is ironic that nudists are just about the last people you'd ever want to see naked.
Naked (1997)
If you talk to people, you can have whatever you want.
Theft by Finding: Diaries, Volume 1 (1977-2002) (2017)
Something has changed, and now, when I look at my students, I see only people who are going to eat up my time.
Theft by Finding: Diaries, Volume 1 (1977-2002) (2017)
It's not lost on me that I'm so busy recording life, I don't have time to really live it.
Let's Explore Diabetes with Owls (2013)
The inevitable finally happened, just as I knew it would.
Theft by Finding: Diaries, Volume 1 (1977-2002) (2017)
Dad on friendship: "Sure, some people are nice. Real nice. Nice like carpets so you can walk all over them."
Theft by Finding: Diaries, Volume 1 (1977-2002) (2017)
A person doesn't consciously choose what he focuses on. Those things choose you, and, once they do, nothing, it seems, can shake them.
Let's Explore Diabetes with Owls (2013)
In first class, you count on your fellow passengers to make you feel good about yourself. You're supposed to look around with pride, telling yourself that these are your kind of people.
Theft by Finding: Diaries, Volume 1 (1977-2002) (2017)
Her face was like the weather in one of those places with no discernible seasons.
Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim (2004)
If finding an apartment is like falling in love, buying one is like proposing on your first date and agreeing not to see each other until the wedding.
Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim (2004)
Later I went to the design school and saw Kumar and Melamid, the Soviet dissident artists, who are funny. I sold them my soul for $1.
Theft by Finding: Diaries, Volume 1 (1977-2002) (2017)
Then again, even if I were informed, what's the likelihood of changing anyone's opinion, especially a couple of strangers? If my own little mind is nailed shut, why wouldn't theirs be?
Let's Explore Diabetes with Owls (2013)
It was insulting to be told not to take too much of something you didn't really want in the first place.
Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim (2004)
that's the beauty of an art school: as long as you can pay the tuition, they will never, even in the gentlest way, suggest that you have no talent.
Naked (1997)
I read "Revolutionary Road" once a year. Aside from its word-by-word construction, I love how his characters deceive themselves.
Because I was lazy, I'd adopted the philosophy that things just happen.
Naked (1997)
I ain't seen pussy in so long I'd throw stones at it.
Me Talk Pretty One Day (2000)
Whenever I see a young woman boarding a plane in her pyjamas, or a guy in a T-shirt that reads your hole is my goal, I always wonder what Mom would think.
Calypso (2018)