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Disco is the best floor show in town. It's very democratic, boys with boys, girls with girls, girls with boys, blacks and whites, capitalists and Marxists, Chinese and everything else, all in one big mix.

— Truman Capote

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It's a scientific fact that if you stay in California you lose one point of your IQ every year.

Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.

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More tears are shed over answered prayers than unanswered ones.

Never trust a nigger: their minds and hair are full of kinks in equal measure.

A conversation is a dialogue, not a monologue. That's why there are so few good conversations: due to scarcity, two intelligent talkers seldom meet.

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