People are afraid of themselves, of their own reality; their feelings most of all. People talk about how great love is, but that’s bullshit
JIM MORRISONCinema, heir of alchemy, last of an erotic science.
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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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Sex is full of lies. The body tries to tell the truth. But, it’s usually too battered with rules to be heard, and bound with pretenses so it can hardly move.
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Most people love you for who you pretend to be.
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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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Whoever controls the media, controls the mind.
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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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There are images I need to complete my own reality.
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We felt comfortable in our skins, enjoyed the news that our senses released to us, admired our dirt, cultivated our scars, and could not comprehend this unworthiness.
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They grow attached to their masks. They love their chains. They forget all about who they really are.
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I think the highest and lowest points are the important ones. Anything else is just…in between.
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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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There are things known and things unknown and in between are The Doors.
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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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Listen, real poetry doesn’t say anything; it just ticks off the possibilities. Opens all doors. You can walk through anyone that suits you.
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All our lives we sweat and save, Building for a shallow grave.
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A man searching for paradise lost can seem a fool to those who never sought the other world.
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We don’t plan theatrics. We hardly ever know which set we’ll play.
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All our songs are about love, travel and death.
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When sex involves all the senses intensely, it can be like a mystical experence.
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The sound of glass speaks quick, disdain and conceals what your eyes fight to explain.
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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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People are strange when you’re a stranger.
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A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself.
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You get to love your pretense…It’s true, we’re locked in an image, an act…
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A kind of electric wedding. We hide ourselves in the music to reveal ourselves.
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Cinema returns us to anima, religion of matter, which gives each thing its special divinity and sees gods in all things and beings.
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