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  • #1
    Hunter S. Thompson
    “Music has always been a matter of Energy to me, a question of Fuel. Sentimental people call it Inspiration, but what they really mean is Fuel. I have always needed Fuel. I am a serious consumer. On some nights I still believe that a car with the gas needle on empty can run about fifty more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio.”
    Hunter S. Thompson

  • #2
    Alain de Botton
    “We are all more intelligent than we are capable, and awareness of the insanity of love has never saved anyone from the disease.”
    Alain De Botton, On Love

  • #3
    Ray Bradbury
    “Love. Fall in love and stay in love. Write only what you love, and love what you write. The word is love. You have to get up in the morning and write something you love, something to live for.”
    Ray Bradbury

  • #4
    Michael Stipe
    “When I was young and full of grace
    And spirited - a rattlesnake
    When I was young and fever fell
    My spirit, I will not tell
    You're on your honor not to tell

    I believe in coyotes and time as an abstract
    Explain the change, the difference between
    What you want and what you need, there's the key,
    Your adventure for today, what do you do
    Between the horns of the day?

    (chorus)
    I believe my shirt is wearing thin
    And change is what I believe in

    When I was young and give and take
    And foolish said my fool awake
    When I was young and fever fell
    My spirit, I will not tell
    You're on your honor, on your honor
    Trust in your calling, make sure your calling's true
    Think of others, the others think of you
    Silly rule golden words make, practice, practice makes perfect,
    Perfect is a fault, and fault lines change

    I believe my humor's wearing thin
    And change is what I believe in
    I believe my shirt is wearing thin
    And change is what I believe in

    (repeat chorus)

    When I was young and full of grace
    As spirited a rattlesnake
    When I was young and fever fell
    My spirit, I will not tell
    You're on your honor, on your honor
    I believe in example
    I believe my throat hurts
    Example is the checker to the key

    I believe my humor's wearing thin
    And I believe the poles are shifting”
    Michael Stipe

  • #5
    Herman Melville
    “Better to sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunk Christian.”
    Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale

  • #6
    Howard Zinn
    “There is no flag large enough to cover the shame of killing innocent people.”
    Howard Zinn

  • #7
    W. Somerset Maugham
    “To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.”
    W. Somerset Maugham, Books and You

  • #8
    Cormac McCarthy
    “He imagined the pain of the world to be like some formless parasitic being seeking out the warmth of human souls wherein to incubate and he thought he knew what made one liable to its visitations. What he had not known was that it was mindless and so had no way to know the limits of those souls and what he feared was that there might be no limits.”
    Cormac McCarthy

  • #9
    Cormac McCarthy
    “Every man's death is standing in for every other. And since death comes to all there is no way to abate the fear of it except to love the man who stands for us.”
    Cormac McCarthy, Cities of the Plain
    tags: bigd

  • #10
    Adam Ant
    “It makes me sad, sad inside, to see a warrior without his pride. ”
    Adam Ant
    tags: mojo

  • #11
    Julian of Norwich
    “All shall be well, and all shall be well and all manner of thing shall be well.”
    Julian of Norwich

  • #12
    Morrissey
    “It's so easy to laugh
    It's so easy to hate
    It takes guts to be gentle and kind”
    Morrissey

  • #13
    Robert Aitken
    “The Buddha's original teaching is essentially a matter of four points -- the Four Noble Truths:

    1. Anguish is everywhere.
    2. We desire permanent existence of ourselves and for our loved ones, and we desire to prove ourselves independent of others and superior to them. These desires conflict with the way things are: nothing abides, and everything and everyone depends upon everything and everyone else. This conflict causes our anguish, and we project this anguish on those we meet.

    3. Release from anguish comes with the personal acknowledgment and resolve: we are here together very briefly, so let us accept reality fully and take care of one another while we can.

    4. This acknowledgement and resolve are realized by following the Eightfold Path: Right Views, Right Thinking, Right Speech, Right Conduct, Right Livelihood, Right Effort, Right Recollection, and Right Meditation. Here "Right" means "correct" or "accurate" -- in keeping with the reality of impermanence and interdependence.”
    Robert Aitken, The Dragon Who Never Sleeps: Verses for Zen Buddhist Practice

  • #14
    Robert Aitken
    “Our practice is not to clear up the mystery. It is to make the mystery clear.”
    Robert Aitken

  • #15
    Walt Whitman
    “All goes onward and outward, nothing collapses,
    And to die is different from what any one supposed, and luckier.”
    walt whitman

  • #16
    Ursula K. Le Guin
    “The book itself is a curious artifact, not showy in its technology but complex and extremely efficient: a really neat little device, compact, often very pleasant to look at and handle, that can last decades, even centuries. It doesn't have to be plugged in, activated, or performed by a machine; all it needs is light, a human eye, and a human mind. It is not one of a kind, and it is not ephemeral. It lasts. It is reliable. If a book told you something when you were fifteen, it will tell it to you again when you're fifty, though you may understand it so differently that it seems you're reading a whole new book."

    (Staying Awake: Notes on the alleged decline of reading, Harper's Magazine, February 2008)”
    Ursula K. Le Guin

  • #17
    Joseph Brodsky
    “Nobody knew literature and history better than these people, nobody could write better Russian than they, nobody despised our times more profoundly. For these characters civilization meant more than daily bread and a nightly hug. This wasn’t, as it would seem, another lost generation. This was the only generation of Russians that had found itself, for whom Giotto and Mandelstam were more imperative than their own personal destinies. Poorly dressed yet somehow still elegant…broken, growing old, they still retained their love for the non-existent (or existing only in their balding heads) thing called ‘civilization.”
    Joseph Brodsky

  • #18
    Albert Camus
    “There is no fate which cannot be surmounted by scorn.”
    Albert Camus

  • #19
    Joe Strummer
    “The future is unwritten.”
    Joe Strummer

  • #20
    G.K. Chesterton
    “My life is passed in making bad jokes and seeing them turn into true prophecies.”
    G.K. Chesterton, Irish Impressions

  • #21
    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “Love Dogs

    One night a man was crying,
    Allah! Allah!
    His lips grew sweet with the praising,
    until a cynic said,
    "So! I have heard you
    calling out, but have you ever
    gotten any response?"

    The man had no answer to that.
    He quit praying and fell into a confused sleep.

    He dreamed he saw Khidr, the guide of souls,
    in a thick, green foliage.
    "Why did you stop praising?"
    "Because I've never heard anything back."
    "This longing
    you express is the return message."

    The grief you cry out from
    draws you toward union.

    Your pure sadness
    that wants help
    is the secret cup.

    Listen to the moan of a dog for its master.
    That whining is the connection.

    There are love dogs
    no one knows the names of.

    Give your life
    to be one of them.”
    Jalal Al-Din Rumi

  • #22
    Roberto Bolaño
    “We all have to die a bit every now and then and usually it's so gradual that we end up more alive than ever. Infinitely old and infinitely alive.”
    Roberto Bolaño, The Skating Rink

  • #23
    George Carlin
    “Just cause you got the monkey off your back doesn't mean the circus has left town.”
    George Carlin

  • #24
    Edward W. Said
    “You cannot continue to victimize someone else just because you yourself were a victim once—there has to be a limit”
    Edward Said



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