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Holly Near

"To be always in a state of wonder is a kind of sensitivity that can sometimes be an extraordinary blessing and sometimes a real pain."

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"To be always in a state of wonder is a kind of sensitivity that can sometimes be an extraordinary blessing and sometimes a real pain."

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"Sloughing my skin / escaping it's grip / stripped of my wit / it hurts to be me ."

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"It's probably a merciful thing that pain is impossible to describe from memory."

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"I'd rather have names to hurt me, than my bones broken with sticks and stones."

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"Because of pain you feel more and so you live more."

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"The slightest pain that we have, is the reaction of the pain that we had given. So do what you find comfortable."

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"One fire burns out another's burning,One pain is lessen'd by another's anguish."

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"One man may shoot himself in the forehead with a .38 and wake up in the hospital. Another may shoot himself in the forehead with a .22 and wake up in hell...if there is such a place. I tend to believe it's here on earth, possibly in New Jersey."

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A.E. Samaan

"No, I say, it's fine.Put a gun to my head and paint the wall with my brains. Just great, I say. Really."

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"Pain is the University of Life."

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"If your tears have lost the ability to hide your pain... why shedding them?"

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"When an audience comes to one of my concerts, I hope they'll see themselves, somewhere, in one of the songs."
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"Why do we kill people who are killing people to show that killing people is wrong?"
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"Leaping away from my mistakes has propelled me forward. It has great force behind it. It makes for great storytelling."
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"A lot of artists say, I'm not political. People are afraid of this word."
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"People love to hear the mistakes you've made."
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"My parents encouraged thought. You'll get through life better if you learn how to think."
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"We who are interested in relative truth have to keep digging for it and not let ourselves be sucked under."
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"Language is like songs, like food, like dance-it is the expression of what we think."
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"My parents had been involved in the labor movement; if we'd grown up in the city, we would have been red-diaper babies."
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"When the students were killed at Kent State, the cast voted to do a demonstration from the stage, and I abstained."
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