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There we were in the middle of a sexual revolution wearing clothes that guaranteed we wouldn't get laid. ↗

— Denis Leary

#get #guaranteed #laid #middle #revolution

You can have good writing, but a great actor will make it feel and sound like great writing. You can have great writing, and mediocre actors will make it feel mediocre. Without the actors, you have nothing. ↗

— Denis Leary

#feel #good #good writing #great #like

We used to play the underground clubs like the UFO, and Middle Earth, and they were great because they would have on things like a poet, string quartets, and then a rock band! It was kinda cool! ↗

— Alvin Lee

#because #clubs #cool #earth #great

The Term Paper Artist' represents two models of writing, one of the little boy bouncing his ball, generating stories for the sheer pleasure of it, and the besieged adult, writing to make a living, having to contend with a very competitive, very unreliable world in which public image counts. ↗

— David Leavitt

#artist #ball #bouncing #boy #competitive

In order to build basic democracy here we'll need lives of two generations - at least forty years. ↗

— Aleksandr Lebed

#build #democracy #forty #forty years #generations

Romantic love is mental illness. But it's a pleasurable one. It's a drug. It distorts reality, and that's the point of it. It would be impossible to fall in love with someone that you really saw. ↗

— Fran Lebowitz

#distorts #fall #illness #impossible #love

When you leave New York, you are astonished at how clean the rest of the world is. Clean is not enough. ↗

— Fran Lebowitz

#clean #enough #how #leave #new

If you are of the opinion that the contemplation of suicide is sufficient evidence of a poetic nature, do not forget that actions speak louder than words. ↗

— Fran Lebowitz

#actions speak #contemplation #evidence #forget #louder

Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women, it is simply a good excuse not to play football. ↗

— Fran Lebowitz

#aspiring #being #excuse #football #good

Yes, hell exists. It is not a fairy tale. One indeed burns there. This hell is not at the end of life. It is here. At the beginning. Hell is what the infant must experience before he gets to us. ↗

— Frederick Leboyer

#beginning #burns #end #exists #experience