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"There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line."
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"I was once thrown out of a mental hospital for depressing the other patients."
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"Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character."
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"What the world needs is more geniuses with humility, there are so few of us left."
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"Happiness isn't something you experience, it's something you remember."
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"Every time I look at you I get a fierce desire to be lonesome.
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"It's not what you are, it's what you don't become that hurts."
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" A pun is the lowest form of humor -- when you don't think of it first.
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"In some situations I was difficult, in odd moments impossible, in rare moments loathsome, but at my best unapproachably great."
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"The only difference between the Democrats and the Republicans is that the Democrats allow the poor to be corrupt, too.
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"You can't possibly hear the last movement of Beethoven's Seventh and go slow. (Oscar trying to talk his way out of a speeding ticket)"
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"I'm going to memorize your name and throw my head away."
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"So little time and so little to do."
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"Roses are red, violets are blue, I'm schizophrenic, and so am I."
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"Once I make up my mind, I'm full of indecision."
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"There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.
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"Happiness is not something you experience, it's something you remember."
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