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I think the rock'n'roll myth of living on the edge is a pile of crap.

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Robert Smith
Age: 65
Born: 1959
Born: April 21
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Robert James Smith
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I could write songs as bad as Wham's if I really felt the urge to, but what's the point?
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B is for Breasts Of which ladies have two Once prized for the function, Now for the view.
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I have never liked Morrissey, and I still don't. I think it's hilarious, actually, what things I've heard about him, what he's really like, and his public persona is so different. He's such an actor.
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Reading is something I've really missed, not being able to enter people's worlds.
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Refusing to grow up is like refusing to accept your limitations. That's why I don't think we'll ever grow up.
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I don't think of death in a romantic way anymore.
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The further I get from the things that I care about, the less I care about how much further away I get.
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I became an adult in an extreme way. I was recently sorting some old photographs and I found another.
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I still frequent my parents' house. I go there to escape, back to the bedroom that I grew up in. Just to sit there and feel small.
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