"When I die, I want people to play my music, go wild and freak out and do anything they want to do."

Hendrix, Jimi on death
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"Divorce is the one human tragedy that reduces everything to cash."

Brown, Rita Mae on divorce   

"She wore far too much rouge last night and not quite enough clothes. That is always a sign of despair in a woman."

Wilde, Oscar on desperation
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"Action is the antidote to despair."

Baez, Joan on despair
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"The desire for success lubricates secret prostitution's in the soul."

Mailer, Norman on desire
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"I can do whatever I want -- I'm rich, I'm famous, and I'm bigger than you."

Johnson, Don on desire   

"Whenever we confront an unbridled desire we are surely in the presence of a tragedy-in-the-making."

Crisp, Quentin on desire   

"Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it."

Maugham, W. Somerset on death   

"Only the young die good."

Herford, Oliver on death
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"An artist is a creature driven by demons. He doesn't know why they choose him and he's usually too busy to wonder why."

Faulkner, William on art
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"The reward of art is not fame or success but intoxication: that is why so many bad artists are unable to give it up."

Connolly, Cyril on art
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"The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure"

Baryshnikov, Mikhail on art
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"I don't consider myself bald, I'm just taller than my hair."

Sharp, Tom on appearance   

"I tend to play mostly villains and twisted people. Unsavory guys. I think it's my face, the way I look."

Walken, Christopher on appearance   

"Ambition is the last refuge of failure."

Wilde, Oscar on ambition
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"Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great."

Rogers, Kenny on ambition
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"Ambition is a poor excuse for not having sense enough to be lazy."

McCarthy, Charlie on ambition   

"I don't want life to imitate art. I want life to be art."

Fisher, Carrie on art
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"A work of art is above all an adventure of the mind."

Ionesco, Eugene on art   

"Bad art is a great deal worse than no art at all."

Wilde, Oscar on art   

"An artist is somebody who produces things that people don't need to have."

Warhol, Andy on art
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"Art is parasitic on life, just as criticism is parasitic on art."

Tynan, Kenneth on art   

"Art -- the one achievement of Man which has made the long trip up from all fours seem well advised."

Thurber, James on art   

"Art is the signature of civilizations."

Sills, Beverly on art   

"To speak of morals in art is to speak of legislature in sex. Art is the sex of the imagination."

Nathan, George Jean on art   

"Irresponsibility is part of the pleasure of all art; it is the part the schools cannot recognize."

Kael, Pauline on art   

"I'm still an artist. I'm never gonna do a shit movie, because I've got my modeling to support me."

Jovovich, Milla on art   

"The piano has been drinking, not me."

Waits, Tom on alcohol and alcoholism   

"Sometimes too much drink is barely enough."

Twain, Mark on alcohol and alcoholism
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"It takes that je ne sais quoi which we call sophistication for a woman to be magnificent in a drawing-room when her faculties have departed but she herself has not yet gone home."

Thurber, James on alcohol and alcoholism   

"I have learned more about love, selflessness and human understanding in this great adventure in the world of AIDS than I ever did in the cut-throat, competitive world in which I spent my life."

Perkins, Anthony on aids   

"The agent never receipts his bill, puts his hat on and bows himself out. He stays around forever, not only for as long as you can write anything that anyone will buy, but as long as anyone will buy any portion of any right to anything that you ever did write. He just takes ten per cent of your life."

Chandler, Raymond on agents   

"Never accept a drink from a Urologist."

Bombeck, Erma on alcohol and alcoholism
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"I never drink water. I'm afraid it will become habit-forming."

Fields, W. C. on alcohol and alcoholism
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"I never drink water; that is the stuff that rusts pipes."

Fields, W. C. on alcohol and alcoholism
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"You can't trust water: Even a straight stick turns crooked in it."

Fields, W. C. on alcohol and alcoholism
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"The cost of living has gone up another dollar a quart."

Fields, W. C. on alcohol and alcoholism   

"Somebody left the cork out of my lunch."

Fields, W. C. on alcohol and alcoholism
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"Even though a number of people have tried, no one has ever found a way to drink for a living."

Kerr, Jean on alcohol and alcoholism   

"A few years back I was more a candidate for skid row bum than an Emmy. If I hadn't stopped [drinking], I'd be playing handball with John Belushi right now."

Larroquette, John on alcohol and alcoholism