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- Those of us that had been up all night were in no mood for coffee and donuts, we wanted strong drink. We were, after all,…
- Who knows? If there is in fact, a heaven and a hell, all we know for sure is that hell will be a viciously overcrowded…
- And that, I think, was the handle--that sense of inevitable victory over the forces of Old and Evil. Not in any mean or military sense;…
- Coming of age in a fascist police state will not be a barrel of fun for anybody, much less for people like me, who are…
- Wake up and ponder the future
- No one HAS to do something he doesn’t want to do for the rest of his life. But then again, if that’s what you wind…
- When you push a car off a cliff and blow it up, be sure to roll the windows down to avoid shrapnel. Also, strip the…
- There's a terrible danger in voting for the lesser of two evils because the parties can set it up that way.
- Most of my stuff is just a series of false leads. I'll approach a story as a subject and then make a whole bunch of…
- If you're going to be crazy, you have to get paid for it or else you're going to be locked up.
- The only difference between the sane and the insane is that the sane have the power to lock up the insane.
- By any accepted standard, I have had more than nine lives. I counted them up once, and there were 13 times I almost and maybe…
- I wasn't trying to be an outlaw writer. I never heard of that term; somebody else made it up. But we were all outside the…
- I guess that's one of the things about growing up in the fifties - it never occurred to me that you wouldn't be at least…
- Hallucinations are bad enough. But after awhile you learn to cope with things like seeing your dead grandmother crawling up your leg with a knife…
- Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to…
- We are turning into a nation of whimpering slaves to Fear—fear of war, fear of poverty, fear of random terrorism, fear of getting down-sized or…
- There is a huge body of evidence to support the notion that me and the police were put on this earth to do extremely different…
- sounds of life and movement, people getting ready and people giving up, the sound of hope and the sound of hanging on, and behind them…
- It is like sitting in a traffic jam on the San Diego Freeway with your windows rolled up and Portuguese music booming out of the…
- Turn the goddam music up! My heart feels like an alligator!
- But after a while you learn to cope with things like seeing your dead grandmother crawling up your leg with a knife in her teeth.…
- Who said anything about slicing you up? ... I just wanted to carve a little Z on your forehead-- nothing serious.
- There is something fresh and crisp about the first hours of a Caribbean day, a happy anticipation that something is about to happen, maybe just…
- The importance of Liking Yourself is a notion that fell heavily out of favor during the coptic, anti-ego frenzy of the Acid Era--but nobody guessed…
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- The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil. — Hannah Arendt
- Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and then they can… — Hannah Arendt
- I try to push ideas away, and the ones that will not leave me alone are the ones that ultimately end up… — J. J. Abrams
- All virtue is summed up in dealing justly. — Aristotle
- Growing up, my ideals were Barbra Streisand, Cher, and my mom. — Kevyn Aucoin
- When I was growing up, the men in my life were abusive; women were the ones I ran to for comfort. — Kevyn Aucoin
- Stories surge up out of nowhere, and if they feel compelling, you follow them. You let them unfold inside you and see… — Paul Auster
- Films and television and even comic books are churning out vast quantities of fictional narratives, and the public continues to swallow them… — Paul Auster
- Nothing is more memorable than a smell. One scent can be unexpected, momentary and fleeting, yet conjure up a childhood summer beside… — Diane Ackerman
- I write the paragraph, then I'm crossing out, changing words, trying to improve it. When it seems more or less OK, then… — Paul Auster
- Get this in mind early: We never grow up. — Richard Bach
- People are so damned afraid that one day they might wake up and discover that they've grown old. — Billie Joe Armstrong