Spalding Gray

All the beautiful waitresses existed like eternal responsibilities.

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All the beautiful waitresses existed like eternal responsibilities.

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I fantasize about going back to high school with the knowledge I have now. I would shine. I would have a good time, I would have a girlfriend. I think that's where a lot of my pain comes from. I think I never had any teenage years to go back to.

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I knew I couldn't live in America, and I wasn't ready to move to Europe, so I moved to an island off the coast of America - New York City... It was tolerant. It was a place that tolerated differences and could incorporate them and embrace them, which was what America was supposed to be about and wasn't.

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The fact that New York continues in the face of all of the chaos, of the crime, of the madness, you just think that it would just pop and vanish, just explode.

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I think of New York as a puree and the rest of the United States as vegetable soup.

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I was raised as an upper-class WASP in New England, and there was this old tradition there that everyone would simply be guided into the right way after Ivy League college and onward and upward. And it rejected me, I rejected it, and I ended up as a kind of refugee, really.

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All things are contingent, and there is always chaos. In other words, shit happens.

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The only thing I don't doubt is my doubt.

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He won't fly on the Balinese airline, Garunda, because he won't fly on any airline where the pilots believe in reincarnation.

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