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.
JIM MORRISONI 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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Nobody would stay interested in me if I was normal
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Twentieth-century culture’s disease is the inability to feel their reality.
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Most people love you for who you pretend to be.
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We’re reaching for death on the end of a candle We’re trying for something that’s already found us
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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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The sound of glass speaks quick, disdain and conceals what your eyes fight to explain.
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People cluster to TV, soap operas, movies, theater, pop idols and they have wild emotion over symbols. But in the reality of their own lives, they’re emotionally dead.
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The grand highway is crowded w/lovers & searchers & leavers so eager to please & forget. Wilderness.
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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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Violence isn’t always evil. What’s evil is the infatuation with violence.
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Obviously that can only work at moments. It can’t be a lasting thing.
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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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Rather than starting inside, I start outside and reach the mental through the physical.
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You cannot petition the lord with prayer!
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Let’s just say I was testing the bounds of reality. I was curious to see what would happen. That’s all it was curiosity.
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