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"I have a right to my anger, and I don't want anybody telling me I shouldn't be, that it's not nice to be, and that something's wrong with me because I get angry."

"Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured."

"He was surprised at how angry he sounded -no, how angry he felt. Because it was impossible. It was impossible and unfair, and he had spent too many years in the trenches of unfairness to get riled up about it now."

"Anger is an agro-chemical that makes self-destruction to grow faster. Like a stone thrown upward, all angry people eventually fall down into the dirty ditch of sorrowful self-harm and a pathetic loss of real-self."

"For me music is a vehicle to bring our pain to the surface, getting it back to that humble and tender spot where, with luck, it can lose its anger and become compassion again."

"A moment of anger is a moment of resentment and madness which can burn your heart."

"I like people and get along, and I'm afraid to express my anger and my rage."
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"The nation that complacently and fearfully allows its artists and writers to become suspected rather than respected is no longer regarded as a nation possessed with humor or depth."

"The past is an old armchair in the attic, the present an ominous ticking sound, and the future is anybody's guess."

"Man has gone long enough, or even too long, without being man enough to face the simple truth that the trouble with man is man."

"Unless artists can remember what it was to be a little boy, they are only half complete as artist and as man."

"It's a naive domestic Burgundy without any breeding, but I think you'll be amused by its presumption."

"The difference between our decadence and the Russians' is that while theirs is brutal, ours is apathetic."

"The sanity of the average banquet speaker lasts about two and a half months; at the end of that time he begins to mutter to himself, and calls out in his sleep."
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