I find it easier to write in these little vignettes; if I try to get any more heavy, I find myself out of my league.

David Bowie

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I’ve never responded well to entrenched negative thinking.
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Myself Negative Respond Thinking
I think the only music I didn’t listen to was country and western, and that holds to this day.
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Country Hold Listening Music Myself Thinking Western
I always had a repulsive sort of need to be something more than human.
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Human Myself Need Response
There, in the chords and melodies, is everything I want to say. The words just jolly it along. It’s always been my way of expressing what for me is inexpressible by any other means.
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Expression Happiness Joy Method Myself
It’s a compulsive need to wreck everything. You might notice there’s a pattern of stripping down and building back up again throughout my life. But I guess that’s how some of us conduct our lives.
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Build Compulsion Life Live Notice Ourselves Pattern
And I think my spaceship knows which way to go.
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Journey Myself Thinking Way
If I never wake again, I certainly will have lived while I was alive.
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Alive Live Myself Wake Up
It would be positively boring if minds were in tune.
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Boredom Mindset Music Positive Rhythm
It’s only forever, Not long at all.
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Forever Long One Liner Time
The media is either our salvation or our death.
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Death Media Ourselves Salvation
Style is about the choices you make to create the aspects of civilization that you wish to uphold.
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Choice Civilization Creation Style Yourself
The end comes when the infinites arrive.
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Arrival End Infinity
I’m a thinker not a talker.
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Myself Talk Thinking
Turn and face the strange.
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Brave Face Hard Time Inspirational Strange
I was always accused of being cold and unfeeling. It was because I was intimidated about touching people.
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Cold Fear Feeling Intimation People Touch
Everything we look at and choose is some way of expressing how we want to be perceived.
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Appearance Choice Expression Perceive Reputation Way
Religion is for people who fear hell, spirituality is for people who have been there.
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Fear People Religion Spiritual
It makes me sad when I see artists who come alive when they go onstage, because, gee, I really come alive when I’m home.
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Alive Artist Home Myself Sad See
I was studying Tibetan Buddhism when I was quite young, again influenced by Kerouac.
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Buddhism Influence Myself Quite Study Young
Confront a corpse at least once. The absolute absence of life is the most disturbing and challenging confrontation you will ever have.
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Body Challenge Death Disturb Life Yourself
For me a chameleon is something that disguises itself to look as much like its environment as possible. I always thought I did exactly the opposite of that.
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Disguise Environment Myself Opposite Possible
There’s a thing that just as you go to sleep, if you keep your elbows elevated that you will never go below the dream stage. And I’ve used that quite a lot and it keeps me dreaming much longer than if I just relaxed.
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Dreams Myself Quite Relax Sleep Stage
I find only freedom in the realms of eccentricity.
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Finding Freedom Myself
There’s a terror in knowing what the world is about.
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Fear Terror World
Secret thinker sometimes listening aloud.
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Aloud Listening Secret Thinking
All art is unstable. Its meaning is not necessarily that implied by the author. There is no authoritative voice. There are only multiple readings.
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Art Author Necessary Reading Stability Voice
Trust nothing but your own experience.
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Experience Independent Trust Yourself

I find it easier to write in these little vignettes; if I try to get any more heavy, I find myself out of my league.

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