Black Flag Quotes
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I have no pride about anything I have done. It's just not the way I think about things. I do the work, always, as hard as I can, to the point of pain, injury, exhaustion, if that is what it takes. Once I am done, I move on.
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I really like older writers, perhaps because they take me out of my element. I don't have a great deal of interest in reading a fictionalized present as it's pretty insane as it is.
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I like the idea of someone else’s love safely sealed in a song or a book.
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Human beings should not be reduced to a state to where they almost get into a fight over a small bar of soap.
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I get tired of talking when I want to be silent.
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Anyone who wants to help me doesn't. Anyone who wants to kill me might. Anyone who wants to love me better not.
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Why do you think the old stories tell of men who set out on great journeys to impress the gods? Because trying to impress people just isn't worth the time and effort.
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People will remember that the Tea Party was co-opted and funded by billion-dollar corporations, and that it was supported by Fox News and other outlets with the same vigor with which they attempt to denigrate the Occupy protesters.
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You don't make me feel like you used to. That's why I'm leaving That's why people leave each other They come to their senses and get selfish again.
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I have no desire to write anything for screen. That's a great talent.
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Michele Bachmann is always a great person to go to for an opinion about anything. She has a very active and interesting mind.
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It's hard to judge literary merit.
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As far as I have been able to understand, the Japanese seem to keep things close to the vest. Friendly but remote and polite to the point of being invisible. It is in the music, literature, film and art that the Japanese really seem to express themselves.
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If there is one set of laws, one Constitution for every citizen, its protections hopefully applied equally to all, then why do the results seem to differ so radically? What do you call that? Look around - you're living in it.
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Most poets are elitist dregs more concerned with proving their skill with a dictionary than communicating ideas with impact.
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In my world there would be as many public libraries as there are Starbucks.
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I'm not much of an improv guy. That's a talent I don't have.
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I'd like to rid myself of writing, to surrender, to release the venom. And hopefully at some point, I'll be a happy, well-adjusted guy and I'll have no need for all that 'art.'
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Most Americans are very cool people.
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My love is a thousand French poets puking black blood on your Cure CD collection.
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I just get things done instead of talking about getting them done. I don't go out and party. I don't smoke, drink or do drugs and I'm not married, that leaves a lot of time for my work.
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There's nothing new about the government protecting corporations and calling it the freeing of the world or bringing democracy to bereft nations.
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I just travel the world with my backpack and my cameras and a bunch of Clif bars.
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The material you work with is that which you will come to resemble. That which you work against will always work against you, including yourself.