“Sometimes the things that come out of my mouth are mortifying.”
As quoted in "Shopping With: Natasha Lyonne; Rough, Tough, But on a Road To Ladylike" by Nancy Hass, in The New York Times (9 July 2000) http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C0DE6DE1738F93AA35754C0A9669C8B63&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=print
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Source: The Crying of Lot 49 (1966), Chapter 3
Context: You don’t understand,” getting mad. “You guys, you’re like Puritans are about the Bible. So hung up with words, words. You know where that play exists, not in that file cabinet, not in any paperback you’re looking for, but—” a hand emerged from the veil of shower-steam to indicate his suspended head—“in here. That’s what I’m for. To give the spirit flesh. The words, who cares? They’re rote noises to hold line bashes with, to get past the bone barrier around an actor’s memory, right? But the reality is in this head. Mine. I’m the projector at the planetarium, all the closed little universe visible in the circle of that stage is coming out of my mouth, eyes, sometimes other orifices also.
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Variant: It's not what enters men's mouth that is evil," said the alchemist. It's what comes out of their mouths that is.
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“Sometimes my mouth is a little too big and a little too open and sounds too much like a sailor.”