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"Fiction is one of the few experiences where loneliness can be both confronted and relieved. Drugs, movies where stuff blows up, loud parties -- all these chase away loneliness by making me forget my name's Dave and I live in a one-by-one box of bone no other party can penetrate or know. Fiction, poetry, music, really deep serious sex, and, in various ways, religion -- these are the places (for me) where loneliness is countenanced, stared down, transfigured, treated."
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"Poetry has its own unique language which every mind translates differently according to their own personal view."
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"Music makes my soul happy."
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"Poetry happens when there is nothing to say but you have a volcano hidden inside you waiting to erupt."
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"Filmmaking is not the work of the weak-minded. It may not be rocket science, but it requires ten times more strength of the mind than that."
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"Poetry is the truth dressed up with perceptions, emotions, and anxieties of expression."
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"Music lifted our spirit."
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"I do not know what the spirit of a philosopher could more wish to be than a good dancer. For the dance is his ideal, also his fine art, finally also the only kind of piety he knows, his "divine service.""
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"When art dresses in worn-out material it is most easily recognized as art."
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"Painting a picture is writing a poem with paint."
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"Everyone can understand music which is the universal language of love and kindness."
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"Lonely people tend, rather, to be lonely because they decline to bear the psychic costs of being around other humans. They are allergic to people. People affect them too strongly."
Psychology
"Almost anyone who loves tennis and follows the men's tour on television has, over the last few years, had what might be termed Federer Moments. These are times, watching the young Swiss at play, when the jaw drops and eyes protrude and sounds are made that bring spouses in from other rooms to see if you're OK."
Sports
"This is the kind of paradox, I think, of what it is to be a halfway intelligent American right now, and probably also a Western European, is that there are things we know are right, and good, and would be better for us to do, but constantly it's like "Yeah, but, you know, it's so much funnier and nicer to go do something else." and "Who cares?" and "It's all bullshit anyway."
Philosophy
"This is so American, man: either make something your God and cosmos and then worship it, or else kill it."
God
"The other half is to dramatize the fact that we still "are" human beings, now. Or can be."
Fact
"People hate people, not freedom."
Humanity
"A question, doctor," he said. "Why doesn't the coyote take the money he spends on bird costumes and catapults and radioactive road runner food pellets and explosive missiles and simply go eat Chinese?" He smiled coolly. "Why doesn't the coyote simply go eat Chinese food?"
Life
"The reasons that center on others are easy to manipulate. All hollow things are light."
Insight
"We're all on each other's food chain. All of us. It's an individual sport. Welcome to the meaning of individual. We're each deeply alone here. It's what we all have in common, this aloneness."
Solitude
"A manual for how to build a mentally ill child."
Society
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