1,228 Quotes by Henry Rollins

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    What I've found is that a lot of soldiers are surprisingly apolitical. Their reality is, "Today I'm going to leave the gate for twelve hours, and I'm going to make it back to the dining facility by sundown with the arms and legs of me and my buddies intact."

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    When she comes She pulls you close She breathes in short bursts Her eyes close Her head tilts back Her mouth opens slightly Her thighs turn to steel, and then melt She is perfect And you feel like you are everything.

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    The reality is that we are going to have problems with water in this century. And the fact that we are going to have problems with fossil fuel is a given.

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    Whether I will be remembered at all, I really don't get to choose, unless I shoot someone famous. It's not really anything I have much control over.

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    All good writers inspire me as I have never thought I was any good. As far as a writer who made me think I could do it, it was Henry Miller. Not because I thought he was so simple that I reckoned I could pull it off as well, but it was his freedom and guts that really moved me to want to write all the time.

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    Music to me is mankind's greatest possible achievement because look at all the good it does.

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    Fish is the only kind of respirating thing that I consume. Everything else I don't want any part of.

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