Richard McKenna Quotes
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The only other animals that would be in the ballpark to be able to do it would be a gorilla, but it's not going to occur to a gorilla to strangle the life out of somebody. They might rip their head off, all right, but it wouldn't occur to a gorilla to just, I'm going to cut off your air.
Quentin Tarantino
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Everything that is ponderous, vicious and pompously clumsy, all long-winded and wearying kinds of style, are developed in great variety among Germans.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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History is nothing more than the belief in the senses, the belief in falsehood.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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A little of true nonviolence acts in a silent, subtle, unseen way and leavens the whole society.
Mahatma Gandhi
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The visceral nature of hard rock music, the fact that you can have this sledge hammering sound - and that you can hook a lyric up and a feeling up to something and make the lyric jump into this machine that crushes. That has always been really attractive to me, that kind of power.
Henry Rollins
Black Flag
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Enthusiasm is ever a gracious, pardonable thing, because in its essentials are youth and zeal and all high, white-hot qualities whose roots strike not in the base earth.
Katherine Cecil Thurston
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It is indeed hard for the strong to be just to the weak, but acting justly always has its rewards.
Eamon de Valera
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So he was deserted. The whole world was clamouring: Kill yourself, kill yourself, for our sakes. But why should he kill himself for their sakes? Food was pleasant; the sun hot; and this killing oneself, how does one set about it, with a table knife, uglily, with floods of blood, - by sucking a gaspipe? He was too weak; he could scarcely raise his hand. Besides, now that he was quite alone, condemned, deserted, as those who are about to die are alone, there was a luxury in it, an isolation full of sublimity; a freedom which the attached can never know.
Virginia Woolf
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For within you is the light of the world — the only light that can be shed upon the Path.
Mabel Collins
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I find him in the curves of certain lines, in the loveliness and subtleties of certain colours.
Oscar Wilde
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Graze on my lips; and if those hills be dry, stray lower, where the pleasant fountains lie.
William Shakespeare
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Being dead is being weak and walled off.
Richard McKenna