There is no intensity of love or feeling that does not involve the risk of crippling hurt. It is a duty to take this risk, to love and feel without defense or reserve.

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No one is ever really alone. You are part of everything alive.

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A consumer society is about simplfying and degrading the consumer as well as the product.

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I am not one of those weak-spirited, sappy Americans who want to be liked by all the people around them. I don’t care if people hate my guts; I assume most of them do. The important question is whether they are in a position to do anything about it. My affections, being concentrated over a few people, are not spread all over Hell in a vile attempt to placate sulky, worthless shits.

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Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the fact.

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The simplest questions are the most difficult.

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Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the fact.

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Most of the trouble in this world has been caused by folks who can't mind their own business, because they have no business of their own to mind, any more than a smallpox virus has.

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what a horrible loutish planet this is. the dominant species consists of sadistic morons, faces bearing the hideous lineaments of spiritual famine swollen with stupid hate. hopeless rubbish.

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There are no innocent bystanders ... what are they doing there in the first place?

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