Most people love you for who you pretend to be.
JIM MORRISONMost people love you for who you pretend to be….To keep their love, you keep pretending – performing.
More Jim Morrison Quotes
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Twentieth-century culture’s disease is the inability to feel their reality.
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Tell them you came, and saw, and looked into my eyes and saw the shadow of the guard receding.
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We cripple ourselves with lies.
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Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself – and especially to feel. Or, not feel.
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The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are…There can’t be any large-scale revolution until there’s a personal revolution, on an individual level. It’s got to happen inside first.
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The best songs just come unasked for. You don’t have to think about them. Summer is a good time for songs.
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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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A person has to be willing to give up everything—not just wealth. All the bullshit he’s been taught—all society’s brainwashing.
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Pain is meant to wake us up. People try to hide their pain. But they’re wrong. Pain is something to carry, like a radio. You feel your strength in the experience of pain.
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They fight anyone who tries to break those chains. It’s their security How can they expect me or anyone else to set them free if they don’t really want to be free?
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Rather than starting inside, I start outside and reach the mental through the physical.
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You have a lot of small choices. It’s like . . . I guess it’s the difference between suicide and slow capitulation . . .
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I’m kind of hooked to the game of art and literature; my heroes are artists and writers.
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There are subtle ways to punish a person for daring to feel. You see that everyone around you has destroyed his true feeling nature. You imitate what you see.
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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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