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Anger is an Energy: My Life Uncensored

by John Lydon

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“I was never young. This idea of fun: cars, girls, saturday night, bottle of wine... to me, these things are morbid. I was always attracted to people with the same problems as me. It doesn't help when most of them are dead.”
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“It may be unfair, but what happens in a few days, sometimes even a single day, can change the course of a whole lifetime...”
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“Real misanthropes are not found in solitude, but in the world; since it is experience of life, and not philosophy, which produces real hatred of mankind.”
― Giacomo Leopardi

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“Man is the cruelest animal.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

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“I know always that I am an outsider; a stranger in this century and among those who are still men.”
― H.P. Lovecraft, The Outsider

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