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There are no 'good' or 'bad' people. Some are a little better or a little worse, but all are activated more by misunderstanding than malice. A blindness to what is going on in each other's hearts...
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Men don't want anything they get too easy. But on the other hand, men lose interest quickly.
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I must endure & endure & still endure.
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When things don’t change, their sameness becomes an accretion. That is why all society puts on flesh. Succumbs to the cubicles and begins to fill them.
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They chatter together like birds on Cypress Hill, but all they say is 'Live, live, live, live, live!' It's all they've learned, it's the only advice they can give.
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I don't think there is such a thing as a precise sexual orientation. I think we're all ambiguous sexually.
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Personal lyricism is the outcry of prisoner to prisoner from the cell in solitary where each is confined for the duration of his life.
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I believe that the silence of God, the absolute speechlessness of Him is a long, long, and awful thing that the whole world is lost because of.
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And so tonight we're going to make the lie true, and when that's done, I'll bring the liquor back here and we'll get drunk together, here, tonight, in this place that death has come into...
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