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Each generation wants new symbols, new people, new names. They want to divorce themselves from their predecessors.
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She needed Cholly's sins desperately. The lower he sank, the wilder and more irresponsible he became, the more splendid she and her task became. In the name of Jesus.
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Man, I'm sick of doubt.
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More or less, we're all afflicted with the psychology of the voyeur. Not in a strictly clinical or criminal sense, but in our whole physical and emotional stance before the world. Whenever we seek to break this spell of passivity, our actions are cruel and awkward and generally obscene, like an invalid who has forgotten to walk.
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Mute nostril agony.
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All our lives we sweat and save, Building for a shallow grave.
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Where are the feasts we were promised? Where is the wine, the new wine, dying on the vine.
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I touched her thigh and death smiled
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Death makes angels of us all and gives us wings where we had shoulders smooth as raven's claws
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Being drunk is a good disguise. I drink so I can talk to assholes. This includes me.
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(Windows work two ways, mirrors one way.) You never walk through mirrors or swim through windows.
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All the poems have wolves in them. All but one. The most beautiful one of all. She dances in a ring of fire and throws off the challenge with a shrug.
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Cool pools from a tired land sink now in the peace of evening Clouds weaken and die. The sun, an orange skull, whispers quietly, becomes an island, & is gone. There they are watching us everything will be dark. The light changed. We were aware knee-deep in the fluttering air as the ships move on trains in their wake.
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Her cunt gripped him like a warm friendly hand.
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People fear death even more than pain. It's strange that they fear death. Life hurts a lot more than death. At the point of death, the pain is over. Yeah, I guess it is a friend.
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Love cannot save you from your own fate.
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Let's just say I was testing the bounds of reality. I was curious to see what would happen. That's all it was curiosity.
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Maybe primitive people have less bullshit to let go of, to give up. A person has to be willing to give up everything—not just wealth. All the bullshit he's been taught—all society's brainwashing. You have to let go of all that to get to the other side. Most people aren't willing to do that.
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The old get older And the young get stronger May take a week And it may take longer They got the guns But we got the numbers Gonna win, yeah We're takin' over Come on!
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The grand highway is crowded w/lovers & searchers & leavers so eager to please & forget. Wilderness.
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Whoever controls the media, controls the mind.
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The subject says 'I see first lots of things which dance - then everything becomes gradually connected'.
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Do you know freedom exists in a school bookDid you know madmen are running our prisons Within a jail Within a gaol Within a white free protestant maelstrom We're perched headlong on the edge of boredom We're reaching for death on the end of a candle We're trying for something that's already found us.
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I can make the earth stop in its tracks. I made the blue cars go away. I can make myself invisible or small. I can become gigantic & reach the farthest things. I can change the course of nature. I can place myself anywhere in space or time. I can summon the dead. I can perceive events on other worlds, in my deepest inner mind, & in the minds of others. I can I am....