A Quote by Laurie Anderson
I'm actually not someone who believes in heaven or anything like that.
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Man has imagined a heaven, and has left entirely out of it the supremest of all his delights...sexual intercourse!...His heaven is like himself: strange, interesting, astonishing, grotesque. I give you my word, it has not a single feature in it that he actually values.
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When someone really believes in what they're saying, but it's crazy, it's, like, my favorite thing on earth.
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