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"An angry artist tells people what (he thinks) they need to hear. A hungry artist tells people what (he thinks) they want to hear."
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"You do not need a boyfriend or a girlfriend to write an emotional poet, because poetry is beyond hooks and holes."

"Music heals all forms of misery."

"Weirdism is definitely the cornerstone of many an artist's career."

"People may think I'm trying something new by telling stories, but they're just jokes connected to give the illusion of stories. But really, I just continue using my imagination and creating. That's what I do."

"I wish I had the talent to paint the way I feel about you, for my words always feel inadequate. I imagine using red for your passion and pale blue for your kindness; forest green to reflect the depth of your empathy and bright yellow for your unflagging optimism. And still I wonder: can even an artist's palette capture the full range of what you mean to me?"

"Poetry is the lifeblood of rebellion, revolution, and the raising of consciousness."

"All along we find that social life - religion, politics, art - reflects the stages reached in the development of the knowledge of self; it shows the social uses made of this knowledge."
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"To be better equipped for the tests that the year will bring - read a textbook. To prepare for the tests that life will bring - read a book."

"Greed is a contagious mental illness without which civilization as we know it would not have been possible."

"Unbeknown to us, some of the people who we hope are missing us wherever they are do miss us; some miss someone else; and some are dead."

"You cannot be truly humble, unless you truly believe that life can and will go on without you."

"Life sometimes reminds us that it is sometimes heartless by giving something or someone we really need to someone who does not need or even want them or it."

"I do not have a problem with people killing themselves, as long as they took at least a hundred years to think about what they are about to do."

"Some of the people we feel sorry for feel sorry for us for thinking that they are the ones who should be felt sorry for."
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