You have a lot of small choices. It’s like . . . I guess it’s the difference between suicide and slow capitulation . . .
JIM MORRISONListen, real poetry doesn’t say anything; it just ticks off the possibilities. Opens all doors. You can walk through anyone that suits you.
More Jim Morrison Quotes
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I am the Lizard King. I can do anything!
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Drugs are a bet with your mind.
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Keep your eyes on the road, your hands upon the wheel.
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I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder, chaos, especially activity that seems to have no meaning.
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A moving or movement away from a station A waving away from a waving a motion Amazement a moment amazing a waving
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I want to feel what it’s like. I want to taste it, hear it, smell it. Death is only going to happen to you once; I don’t want to miss it
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Everybody insists that freedom is what they want the most, the most sacred and precious thing a man can possess. But that’s bullshit! People are terrified to be set free – they hold on to their chains.
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Most people love you for who you pretend to be.
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Jealousy we understood and thought natural–a desire to have what somebody else had; but envy was a strange, new feeling for us.
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Whoever controls the media, controls the mind.
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I offer images-I conjure memories of freedom that can still be reached-like the Doors, right? But we can only open the doors-we can’t drag people through.
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I wouldn’t mind dying in a plane crash. It’d be a good way to go. I don’t want to die in my sleep, or of old age, or OD…
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We don’t plan theatrics. We hardly ever know which set we’ll play.
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The sound of glass speaks quick, disdain and conceals what your eyes fight to explain.
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Where’s your will to be weird?
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