Rather than starting inside, I start outside and reach the mental through the physical.
JIM MORRISONYou get to love your pretense…It’s true, we’re locked in an image, an act…
More Jim Morrison Quotes
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Some of the worst mistakes of my life have been haircuts.
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Maybe primitive people have less bullshit to let go of, to give up.
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We fear violence less than our own feelings. Personal, private, solitary pain is more terrifying than what anyone else can inflict.
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Most people love you for who you pretend to be….To keep their love, you keep pretending – performing.
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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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A hero is someone who rebels or seems to rebel against the facts of existence and seems to conquer them.
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How can they deal with love if they’re afraid to feel? 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.
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Being drunk is a good disguise. I drink so I can talk to assholes. This includes me.
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Cinema, heir of alchemy, last of an erotic science.
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Thoughts 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
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No eternal reward will forgive us now for wasting the dawn.
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There’s nothing wrong with being a large mammal.
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That’s what real love amounts to – letting a person be what he really is.
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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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Sometimes we worked out in Venice, looking at the surf. We were together a lot and it was good times for all of us. Acid, sun, friends, the ocean, and poetry and music.
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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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Most people love you for who you pretend to be.
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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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Why does my mind circle around you? Why do planets wonder what it would be like to be you?
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I believe in a long, prolonged, derangement of the senses in order to obtain the unknown.
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How can I set free anyone who doesn’t have the guts to stand up alone and declare his own freedom?
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Death makes angels of us all and gives us wings where we had shoulders smooth as ravens claws.
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Cancel my subscription to the resurrection.
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The best songs just come unasked for. You don’t have to think about them. Summer is a good time for songs.
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Blake said that the body was the soul’s prison unless the five senses are fully developed and open. He considered the senses the ‘windows of the soul.’
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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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