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"How could you think of such awful things?" liberal critics always ask. "How else could I possibly amuse myself?" I always wonder.

— John Waters Shock Value: A Tasteful Book About Bad Taste (1981)

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If you go home with someone and they don't have books, don't fuck them.

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