I can live without it all -- love with its blood pump, sex with its messy hungers, men with their peacock strutting, their silly sexual baggage, their wet tongues in my ear.

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Life is so messy that the temptation to straighten it up is very strong. And the results always illusory.

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If we insist that public life be reserved for those whose personal history is pristine, we are not going to get paragons of virtue running our affairs. We will get the very rich, who contract out the messy things in life the very dull, who have nothing to hide and nothing to show and the very devious, expert at covering their tracks and ambitious enough to risk their discovery.

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In films murders are always very clean. I show how difficult it is and what a messy thing it is to kill a man.

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We all carry around so much pain in our hearts. Love and pain and beauty. They all seem to go together like one little tidy confusing package. It's a messy business, life. It's hard to figure--full of surprises. Some good. Some bad.

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Family love is messy, clinging, and of an annoying and repetitive pattern, like bad wallpaper.

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My desk is not messy! It's just decaying into a lower energy level faster than everyone else's.

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Please excuse our messy house, the kids are making memories

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