They force us to destroy the person we really are: a subtle kind of murder.
JIM MORRISONPeople 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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You have to let go of all that to get to the other side. Most people aren’t willing to do that.
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Cinema, heir of alchemy, last of an erotic science.
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There are things known and things unknown and in between are The Doors.
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Ravaged and plundered and ripped her and bit her Stuck her with knives in the side of the dawn And tied her with fences and dragged her down
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Where’s your will to be weird?
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Choose the day and choose the sign of your day! The day’s divinity! First thing you see!!
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Los Angeles is a city looking for a ritual to join its fragments, and The Doors are looking for such a ritual also.
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Drugs are a bet with your mind.
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Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself – and especially to feel. Or, not feel.
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I think people resist freedom because they’re afraid of the unknown. But it’s ironic.
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We don’t plan theatrics. We hardly ever know which set we’ll play.
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This is the strangest life I’ve ever known.
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All the poems have wolves in them. All but one. The most beautiful one of all. She dances in a ring of fire and throws off the challenge with a shrug.
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The only solution is to confront them – confront yourself – with the greatest fear imaginable.
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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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