Here I was a virgin. Could you imagine getting your ass blown off for the sake of history before you even knew what a woman was? Or owned an automobile? What would I be protecting? Somebody else. Somebody else who didn't give a **** about me. Dying in a war never stopped wars…
~ Charles Bukowski
"I would set you free, if I knew how. But it isn't free out here. All the animals, the plants, the minerals, even other kinds of men, are being broken and reassembled every day, to preserve an elite few, who are the loudest to theorize on freedom, but the least free of all."
-Gravity's Rainbow
"The model of a romantic, self-destructive, crazy genius that they and others provide us is understandable as part of the alienation of people from the cancerous and explosive growth of Western nations during the last one hundred and fifty years. Zen and Chinese poetry demonstrate that a truly creative person is more truly sane; that this romantic view of crazy genius is just another reflection of the craziness of our times… I aspire to and admire a sanity from which, as in a climax ecosystem, one has spare energy to go on to even more challenging — which is to say more spiritual and more deeply physical — things."--Gary Snyder
“The children are always ours, every single one of them, all over the globe; and I am beginning to suspect that whoever is incapable of recognizing this may be incapable of morality.”
~James Baldwin
“In an ever-changing, incomprehensible world the masses had reached the point where they would, at the same time, believe everything and nothing, think that everything was possible and that nothing was true. ...”
“The ideal subject of totalitarianism is...people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists.”
~Hannah Arendt
I know lots of people who are educated far beyond their intelligence." --Lewis Grizzard
Earth without art is just eh.
- Banksy, presumably
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I don't mind dying, I just don't want to be there when it happens.
Woody Allen
"The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons." - Fyodor Dostoevsky
