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Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers. You can fill your life up with ideas and still go home lonely.

Janis Joplin

At my concerts most of the chicks are looking for liberation, they think I’m gonna show ’em how to do it.
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You can destroy your now by worrying about tomorrow.
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And I decided then and there that that was it. I never wanted to do anything else. It was better than it had been with any man, you know. Maybe that’s the trouble.
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The consequences, [screw] the implications of the actions, to hell with it all… whatever happens as a result is better than the nothingness that is inevitable with silence.
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At least we know we tend to be afraid. If you object to my plural noun, I’ll retract it.
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It’s hard to be free but when it works, it’s worth it!
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I’d rather have ten years of superhypermost than live to be seventy sitting in some goddamn chair watching TV.
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It used to make me unhappy, all that feeling. I just didn’t know what to do with it. But now I’ve learned how to make feeling work for me…
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Don’t compromise yourself. You are all you’ve got.
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If you’ve got a today, don’t wear it tomorrow. Tomorrow never happens. It’s all the same day.
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I don’t know what happened. I just exploded. I’d never sung like that before. I used to stand still and sing simple, but you can’t sing like that in front of a rock band.
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All my life I just wanted to be a beatnik. Meet all the heavies, get stoned, get laid, have a good time. That’s all I ever wanted.
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My business is to enjoy and have fun. And why not, if in the end everything will end, right?
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If you don’t settle for that and you keep fighting it, you know, you’ll end up anything you want to be.
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Wait a minute, maybe I can do anything.
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I had a lot of hurts and confusions. You know, it’s hard when you’re a kid to be different. You’re all full of things, and you don’t know that it’s about.
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