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'Cause this music can put a human being in a trance like state and deprive it for the sneaking feeling

of existing. 'Cause music is bigger than words and wider than pictures.

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I can go anywhere that I want

I just got to turn myself inside out and back to front

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It's not a problem of getting people to express themselves but of providing little gaps of solitude and silence in which they might eventually find something to say. Repressive forces don't stop people from expressing themselves but rather force them to express themselves. What a relief to have nothing to say, the right to say nothing, because only then is there a chance of framing the rare, and even rarer, thing that might be worth saying.

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All the meat and all it wants.

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LET me say this before rain becomes a utility that they can plan and distribute for money.

By "they" I mean the people who cannot understand that rain is a festival, who do not appreciate its gratuity, who think that what has no price has no value, that what cannot be sold is not real, so that the only way to make something actual is to place it on the market.

The time will come when they will sell you even your rain. At the moment it is still free, and I am in it. I celebrate its gratuity and its meaninglessness.

And I listen, because it reminds me again and again that the whole world runs by rhythms I have not yet learned to recognize, rhythms that are not those of the engineer.

Think of it: all that speech pouring down, selling nothing, judging nobody, drenching the thick mulch of dead leaves, soaking the trees, filling the gullies and crannies of the wood with water, washing out the places where men have stripped the hillside!

I close my eyes and instantly sink into the whole rainy world of which I am a part, and the world goes with me in it, for I am not alien to it.

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Dad’s Lapse

My father once had intercourse with a polar bear in Canada.

If you ask him he will deny this, not completely astonished.

"Canada?" he will shout in a restrained manner, playing for time.

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Diljale

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I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.

Bilbo Baggins

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Work is the curse of the drinking class

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Abstraction is when you take something complicated and find a way to treat it as if it were something simple.

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“What is it like to be a penguin on the verge of extinction? To watch with growing disquiet and impotence as the means of life-building are destroyed right in front of you, and the horizons of experience shrink, and the joys of life – from mouthfuls of krill, to sex on the ice, to play in the pelagic shallows – dwindle to the point of death? It is not that penguins are like us. We are like them, more like them than we know. And we know what it feels like to be a penguin on the verge of extinction more than we’d like to admit.”

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“My life amounts to no more than one drop in a limitless ocean. Yet what is any ocean, but a multitude of drops?” David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas

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there is a loneliness in this world so great that you can see it in the slow movement of the hands of a clock. people so tired mutilated either by love or no love. people just are not good to each other one on one. the rich are not good to the rich the poor are not good to the poor. we are afraid. our educational system tells us that we can all be big-ass winners. it hasn't told us about the gutters or the suicides. or the terror of one person aching in one place alone untouched unspoken to watering a plant.

Charles Bukowski, Love is a Dog From Hell