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I had a dream about you. I was sitting on your couch, relating my succession of ideas on subconscious influence. I asked you what they meant, and you told me that free associations were a bad way to advance my political career.Bauvard
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I had a dream about you. You were lost in a daydream, when I walked in and you began screaming. But I know that could never actually happen. In real life I only enter people’s nightmares.Bauvard
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Alphabet: a symbolic system used in algebra, with applications that have yet to be discovered by dyslexics and two thirds of college graduates.Bauvard
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The idealist hopes. The romantic sees doom. The postmodernist sees doom and hopes.Bauvard
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The lampshade on my head is for my bright ideas. I won't be able to convey them until Monday, when my curtain gets out of the dry cleaners.Bauvard
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Pure joy is rare. That’s why for every meal I eat a really bloody steak.Bauvard
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Mom always said I was born to sit in the electric chair, but I'm proving her wrong. I'm going to die on my knees, begging for my life.Bauvard
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I bet there are a lot of women out there who want to sleep with a guy who reads. And being the head of the reading foundation, I’m very well endowed.Bauvard
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I love working with my hands. My writing is rough, my paper bruised with ink stains.Bauvard
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Night clubs are where Americans learn the laws of motion.Bauvard
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Education: learning to find your purpose. Upon finding your purpose: what did I learn?Bauvard
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I had a dream about you. You were being hung. I had a sword in one hand and a stool in the other. I couldn’t decide which one to use, so I stood on the stool and threw myself on the sword. It was the least I could do to protest capital punishment.Bauvard
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I had a dream about you. We couldn't decide on a sunrise. You wanted a tan, I only cared about the view. Then World War III fulfilled both our desires.Bauvard
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I had a dream about you. You suggested to split the profits, so I did. I threw one half in the furnace to power the steam engine, and the other half in the air to distract our pursuers.Bauvard
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I had a dream about you. I was a ventriloquist trying to share your fashion secrets, but you wouldn’t talk. So we put on a strip show for the department store sale, and I was arrested for theft — I took away your dignity as a mannequinBauvard
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If all women revealed their age, men would have nothing to hide from each other.Bauvard
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The problem with our society is that our values aren’t in the right place. There’s an awful lot of bleeding and naked bodies on prime-time networks, but not nearly enough cable television on public programming.Bauvard
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Bike lane: the section of the road that accommodates wide loads and has speed bumps to protect drunk drivers.Bauvard
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When nobody practices what they strongly believe in, that day will be a triumph of prudence.Bauvard
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Artists are the serfs of a leisure society.Bauvard
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I threw an etiquette party and served nothing but beans and sparkling water. The topic of conversation was ‘excuse me’.Bauvard
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Every culture has some ritual for joining two people together and making them stay that way, and ours is giving tax breaks.Bauvard
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I don’t read biographies for moral instruction, or for a history lesson. I want to know what people are saying about me.Bauvard
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Envy is for people who don’t have the self-esteem to be jealous.Bauvard
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If you want to change the world, just change yourself. The world needs traitors.Bauvard
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I hope people of the future will remember my books for being burned, and I challenge an elite few to imagine the embers of the last copy.Bauvard
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Welcome to Telepathics Anonymous. Don’t bother introducing yourself.Bauvard
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Without humor, we’d all be what we’re laughing at. Without arrogance, we’d be humiliated to admit we already are.Bauvard
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Divorce runs high these days, but I’m an exception to the norm. I got divorced when marriage was still popular.Bauvard
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Where does love reveal itself? In beds, sofas, bathtubs — each section of a department store has its advantages.Bauvard
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We need to save the forests. I have a big warehouse we can store them in.Bauvard
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The stars have a strong effect on our daily shopping lives. Hollywood is astrology’s only credible conspiracy.Bauvard
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We need to revitalize the American spirit. People are always asking ‘What would the founding fathers do, ’ but I have yet to witness a single séance.Bauvard
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Trees are corrupting our parks. They should be arrested for loitering. For deciduous trees, add littering and indecent exposure to that list of offenses.Bauvard
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Injuries heal, but wrinkles are the scars of time.Bauvard
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A man is always devoted to something more tangible than a woman - the idea of her.Bauvard
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Every child that receives life advice should keep in mind that in every parent’s past, there’s leftover booze and contraceptives.Bauvard
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When someone gives me either a democratic or republican pamphlet, I throw it in their face. I’m a librarian, damn it! We only take book donations.Bauvard
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Treat each other like human beings? But the other great apes have no class hierarchy.Bauvard
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I get a lot of big ideas, and occasionally I actually come up with one myself.Bauvard
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Some people won't have kids, but I’m not going to have parents. I’m burning their birth certificates and defacing their gravestones tonight.Bauvard
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I shed a tear when I meet somebody who always quits. Reliable people are so rare in this world.Bauvard
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I lacked the knowledge of linear perspective needed to get into the art school, so now I whitewash walls and imagine I’m heaven’s landscape painter.Bauvard
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Political debate: when charlatans come together to discuss their principles.Bauvard
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If you want more development in your relationship, move to an urban area.Bauvard
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I love the smell of a new book, but I prefer inhaling fresh bottles of ink and glue. They get me more lightheaded — unless I read the book.Bauvard
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Careers are not made in a family business, they are born — by patricide. Then they die from neglect, and avoid the tragedy of being put out of business.Bauvard
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Experience: the vehicle of history. Teenagers: the driving force behind fatal accidents.Bauvard
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We live in one of the few epochs of humanity where life isn't just a painful cycle of toil, fatigue, and collapse. Now pleasure gyrates us through those stages.Bauvard
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Men only treat women like princesses when they want to use them like prostitutes.Bauvard
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Bragging about your compassion is the first step towards feeling a genuine emotion.Bauvard
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Humor is not an end in itself, but a tool to understanding. A dense head must be tickled with an ax.Bauvard
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Self-awareness of one’s faults, far from being the first step to growth, is very often the second foot in the mud.Bauvard
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There is an enduring freshness in what remains strange and obscure which the cliches of greatness can only evoke nostalgia for.Bauvard
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I study men like I study books: I skim their midsections.Bauvard
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I lost something magical in the process of growing up — my disillusionment.Bauvard
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Making love to a person in their sleep is the only guarantee they'll wake up with a smile on their face.Bauvard
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To die famous is the goal of the immortal. To die young is the goal of the healthy. To die memorably is the goal of the survivor.Bauvard
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Embarrassing facts, those would really help our children remember their classroom lessons better.Bauvard
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First people lose their hair, then their vices, then their motivation. Then a toupee brings it all flowing back.Bauvard