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"By(e) pen, I've tried my hand at poetry; only to see how boring it is to me. That is, unless I get a chance to destroy each and every piece while doing it as I please."
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"Artists use lies to tell the truth. Yes, I created a lie. But because you believed it, you found something true about yourself."

"Art is to console those who are broken by life."

"Why I write music? Because it hurts not to."

"The most mesmerizing of artists is always like one who was merely drawing in the sand and people came to watch."

"He said, one has to learn that painting well - in the academic and technical sense - comes right at the bottom of the list. I mean, you've got that ability. So have thousands."

"Philosophers tell you what they think. Artists show you."

"There's no point in writing my kind of stuff, when they're printing that kind of stuff. So I gave up and started drinking."

"5.57am and I'm finishing the last poem to the taste of the last cigarette. Smoke in my lungs, poetry on the paper. Inhale, exhale, it doesn't get much easier."
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"What further helps to reveal reality is when our personal thinking ceases to take reality for granted."

"My heart goes out to some of those rather hostile yet highly intelligent individuals who may see problems really because they have solutions. That hostility is learned in defense; not offense. An often stubborn and prideful world, in its self-destructive, temporary bliss of ignorance, may be violently resistant to the watchful mind."

"I often find that people confuse inner peace with some sense of insensibility whenever something goes wrong. In such cases inner peace is a permit for destruction: The unyielding optimist will pretend that the forest is not burning either because he is too lazy or too afraid to go and put the fire out."

"Christianity is at its purest a philosophy about a person, Jesus Christ, and at its dirtiest a philosophy about requirements and law."

"Christ commands his people to love their enemies, because if not, that would rule out pretty much the entire world."

"I am not here to merely argue about the perplexities regarding theism or philosophy, but to be a light to the world and to reach out to those who long to be a part of that light."

"All men are born firstly with the instinct to protect themselves. But few grow to really love themselves, and even fewer learn to love their neighbor as themselves."

"It's much easier on the emotions when one sees life as an experiment rather than a struggle for popularity."
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