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"At the point where I'm trying to force something and it's not happening, and I'm getting frustrated with, say, writing a poem, I can go and pick up the brushes and start painting. At the point where the painting seems to not be going anywhere, I go and pick up the guitar."
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"I can stand brute force, but brute reason is quite unbearable. There is something unfair about its use. It is hitting below the intellect."
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"They take journalism really seriously because they know the force that it is and can be."
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"Whether or not you could actually increase the size of the force is something that will have to be determined."
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"We butchered the force present at the airport, we are destroying them."
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"To know the laws is not to memorize their letter but to grasp their full force and meaning."
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"'Tis hard to comprehend how one man can come to be master of many, equal to himself in right, unless it be by consent or by force."
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"The jet stream is a very strong force and pushing a balloon into it is like pushing up against a brick wall, but once we got into it, we found that, remarkably, the balloon went whatever speed the wind went."
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"Now if this electron is displaced from its equilibrium position, a force that is directly proportional to the displacement restores it like a pendulum to its position of rest."
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"Resorting to violence and the use of force at holy sites is unacceptable, whatever the reason might be."
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"The broad masses of a population are more amenable to the appeal of rhetoric than to any other force."
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"The more decadent a culture gets, the more they have a need for what they don't have at all, which is innocence, so you end up with kiddie porn and a perverse obsession with youth."
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"Sorrow is so easy to express and yet so hard to tell."
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"Everyone I know has attention deficit, and they say it with great pride. It's a bad time to be right."
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"When you're trying to pass on the best of the stuff you're culling to what should be a hungry culture but you have it diminished... that's kind of disappointing."
Culture

"There are things to confess that enrich the world, and things that need not be said."
World

"With a painting, you don't have to go back and paint it again."
Painting

"This is a nation that has lost the ability to be self-critical, and that makes a lie out of the freedoms."
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"At the point where I'm trying to force something and it's not happening, and I'm getting frustrated with, say, writing a poem, I can go and pick up the brushes and start painting. At the point where the painting seems to not be going anywhere, I go and pick up the guitar."
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"You could write a song about some kind of emotional problem you are having, but it would not be a good song, in my eyes, until it went through a period of sensitivity to a moment of clarity. Without that moment of clarity to contribute to the song, it's just complaining."
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"I have one piece of music, since 1997, and I don't see it having lyrics. Where does it go in this world? So I haven't recorded it."
Music
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