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middle-class apartment,
and I flung him... out.
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I haven't seen him since.
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You know what he said to me?
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He's standing there on the landing,
on the verge of tears.
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He shrieked at me:
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"You old fink.
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"You can't even get it up anymore"."
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That was it, you see.
:49:41
That was his real revolution.
:49:45
It wasn't racism...
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the oppressed poor, or the war in Vietnam.
:49:53
The ultimate American societal sickness...
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was a limp dingus.
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My God.
:50:06
If there is a despised,
misunderstood minority in this country...
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it is us poor, impotent bastards.
I'm impotent, and I'm proud of it.
:50:14
Impotence is beautiful, baby!
:50:18
- Power to the impotent! Right on, baby!
- Right on!
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You know...
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when I say impotent,
I don't mean merely limp.
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Disagreeable as it may be for a woman,
a man may lust for other things...
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something a little less transient
than an erection.
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A sense of permanent worth.
:50:47
That's what medicine was to me,
my reason for being.
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When I was 34...
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I presented a paper
before the annual convention...