“I'd never trust anyone who hadn't spent at least one night of his youth in the local jail. The more hell you raise as a teen-ager, the sweeter your memories will be.”

—  John Waters

Books, Shock Value: A Tasteful Book About Bad Taste (1981)

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American filmmaker, actor, comedian and writer 1946

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