Each generation wants new symbols, new people, new names. They want to divorce themselves from their predecessors.
JIM MORRISONThoughts in time and out of season, the hitchinker stood by the side of the road and levelled his thumb in the calm calculus of reason
More Jim Morrison Quotes
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There’s nothing wrong with being a large mammal.
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The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are. You trade in your reality for a role. You give up your ability to feel, and in exchange, put on a mask.
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I see myself as a huge fiery comet, a shooting star. Everyone stops, points up and gasps “Oh look at that!” Then – whoosh, and I’m gone… and they’ll never see anything like it ever again… and they won’t be able to forget me – ever.
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Expose yourself to your deepest fear. After that, fear has no power, and fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free.
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Drugs are a bet with your mind.
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There may be a time when we’ll attend Weather Theaters to recall the sensation of rain.
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Cinema, heir of alchemy, last of an erotic science.
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Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine with them. That’s what real love amounts to – letting a person be what he really is.
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I like any reaction I can get with my music. Just anything to get people to think.
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I think that phrase is the most horrible phrase in the English language – ‘I don’t know.’ It’s terribly embarrassing.
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Where are the feasts we were promised? Where is the wine, the new wine, dying on the vine.
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I like any reaction I can get with my music.
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All your soft wild promises were words, birds, endlessly in flight.
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Just anything to get people to think. I mean if you can get a whole room full of drunk, stoned people to actually wake up and think, you’re doing something.
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I wonder why people like to believe I’m high all the time. I guess . . . maybe they think someone else can take their trip for them.
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