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And what is any artist, really, but someone who doesn’t mind being an asshole?
“The only thing with legs Chinese people don’t eat is table and chair!”
Sometimes Charles thought that conversation must be the truest art form. In a good back-and-forth, you’re continually creating something new, something that only exists in a single present moment. Whole universes were built and destroyed in the course of a good conversation.
“His mouth keeps writing checks that his fists can’t cash.”
The Communists had it all wrong. It wasn’t the rich who were imprisoned by their possessions, it was the poor.