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“I'm not close to people, I am close to myself. I spend a lot of time inside.”
― Henry Rollins, Black Coffee Blues

“I hope I don't dream tonight. Sometimes you can get so far in yourself that you don't know who you are.”
― Henry Rollins, Black Coffee Blues

“Life will not break your heart. It'll crush it.”
― Henry Rollins

“... Basically, we live a short, disappointing life; and then we die. We fill up oor lives wi shite, things like careers and relationships tae delude oorsels that it isnae aw totally pointless.”
― Irvine Welsh, Trainspotting

“Sometimes ah think that people become junkies just because they subconsciously crave a wee bit ay silence.”
― Irvine Welsh, Trainspotting

“Scar tissue is stronger than regular tissue. Realize the strength, move on.”
― Henry Rollins

“El camino más fácil no es siempre el mejor.”
― T. Lobsang Rampa, The Third Eye

“My parents raised me that you never ask people about their reproductive plans. “You don’t know their situation,” my mom would say. I considered it such an impolite question that for years I didn’t even ask myself. Thirty-five turned into forty faster than McDonald’s food turns into cold nonfood.”
― Tina Fey, Bossypants

“Pop and metal aren't friends. Each knows exactly where the other lives and tries to keep its distance. They choose different streets, neighborhoods, zip codes.”
― Dave Mustaine, Mustaine: A Heavy Metal Memoir

“You know people like this, right? People who are incapable of enjoying anything.”
― Tim Gunn, Gunn's Golden Rules: Life's Little Lessons for Making It Work

“I believe that treating other people well is a lost art.”
― Tim Gunn, Gunn's Golden Rules: Life's Little Lessons for Making It Work

“I believe there will always be women who choose to actively embody racial and sexual stereotypes for their own material gain. Those idividuals will reap the benefits, whilke making it harder for other women to be seen as legitimate musicians.”
― Laina Dawes, What are You Doing Here?: A Black Woman's Life and Liberation in Heavy Metal

“People don't read any more. It's a sad state of affairs. Reading's the only thing that allows you to use your imagination. When you watch films it's someone else's vision, isn't it?"

[Interview in The Independent, 15 October 2005]”
― Lemmy Kilmister

“In my life so far, I have discovered that there are really only two kinds of people: those who are for you, and those who are against you. Learn to recognize them, for they are often and easily mistaken for each other.”
― Lemmy Kilmister

“people who matter in our lives stay with us, haunting our most ordinary moments. They’re with us in the grocery store, as we turn a corner, chat with a friend. They rise up through the pavement; we absorb them through our soles.”
― Christina Baker Kline, Orphan Train

“Some people are easier to love when you don't have to be around them.”
― Irvine Welsh

“It hurts to let go. Sometimes it seems the harder you try to hold on to something or someone the more it wants to get away. You feel like some kind of criminal for having felt, for having wanted. For having wanted to be wanted. It confuses you, because you think that your feelings were wrong and it makes you feel so small because it's so hard to keep it inside when you let it out and it doesn't coma back. You're left so alone that you can't explain. Damn, there's nothing like that, is there? I've been there and you have too. You're nodding your head.”
― Henry Rollins, The Portable Henry Rollins

“Time constricts and flattens, you know. It's not evenly weighted. Certain moments linger in the mind and others disappear.”
― Christina Baker Kline, Orphan Train

“It’s not just the permanence of the finished product, but the discomfort inherent in the process that draws people in mourning to translate an emotional throbbing into a physical one and emerge intact on the other side with a beautiful scar.”
― Kate Sweeney, American Afterlife: Encounters in the Customs of Mourning

“They're certainly entitled to think that, and they're entitled to full respect for their opinions... but before I can live with other folks I've got to live with myself. The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

“Sometimes the Bible in the hand of one man is worse than a whisky bottle in the hand of (another)... There are just some kind of men who - who're so busy worrying about the next world they've never learned to live in this one, and you can look down the street and see the results.”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

“I'm quite illiterate, but I read a lot. ”
― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

“That's the whole trouble. When you're feeling very depressed, you can't even think.”
― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

“What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn't happen much, though.”
― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

“There are ghosts everywhere," Ser Jorah said softly. "We carry them with us wherever we go.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Clash of Kings

“Certainly we admire Satan as a symbol of the questioning mind, the refusal to serve, the refusal to blindly obey authority.”
― Lilith Starr, The Happy Satanist: Finding Self-Empowerment

“In fact, you might be surprised to find that many Satanists are the kindest, most loving people you know”
― Lilith Starr, The Happy Satanist: Finding Self-Empowerment

“Love is poison. A sweet poison, yes, but it will kill you all the same.”
― George R.R. Martin

“fools believe in foolish things.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Clash of Kings

“Do you believe in ghosts, Maester?" [Jaime] asked Qyburn.

The man's face grew strange. "Once, at the Citadel, I came into an empty room and saw an empty chair. Yet I knew a woman had been there, only a moment before. The cushion was dented where she'd sat, the cloth was still warm, and her scent lingered in the air. If we leave our smells behind us when we leave a room, surely something of our souls must remain when we leave this life?”
― George R.R. Martin, A Storm of Swords