Cinema returns us to anima, religion of matter, which gives each thing its special divinity and sees gods in all things and beings.
JIM MORRISONEach generation wants new symbols, new people, new names. They want to divorce themselves from their predecessors.
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The grand highway is crowded w/lovers & searchers & leavers so eager to please & forget. Wilderness.
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Give me songs to sing and emerald dreams to dream and I’ll give you love unfolding.
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The most loving parents and relatives commit murder with smiles on their faces.
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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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Someday, who knows, we might conquer death, disease and war.
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Do you know the warm progress under the stars? Do you know we exist? Have you forgotten the keys to the kingdom? Have you been born yet & are you alive?
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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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A kind of electric wedding. We hide ourselves in the music to reveal ourselves.
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Nobody would stay interested in me if I was normal
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Is everybody in?… Is everybody in?… Is everybody in? The ceremony is about to begin…
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I want to have my kicks before the whole shithouse goes up in flames.
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We are content in the ‘given’ in sensation’s quest. We have been metamorphosised from a mad body dancing on hillsides to a pair of eyes staring in the dark.
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The world we suggest is a new wild west. A sensuous evil world. Strange and haunting, the path of the sun.
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We cripple ourselves with lies.
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And if you try to remind them, they hate you for it – they feel like you’re trying to steal their most precious possession.
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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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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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The gate is straight, Deep and wide, Break on through to the other side…
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You feel your strength in the experience of pain.
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People are strange when you’re a stranger.
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Music inflames temperament.
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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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Let’s just say I was testing the bounds of reality…
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You have a lot of small choices. It’s like . . . I guess it’s the difference between suicide and slow capitulation . . .
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The only solution is to confront them – confront yourself – with the greatest fear imaginable.
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