"I always wanted to be an artist, whatever that was, like other chicks want to be stewardesses. I read. I painted. I thought."

Thought, Artist, Want

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"I always wanted to be an artist, whatever that was, like other chicks want to be stewardesses. I read. I painted. I thought."

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"Each "way of thinking" has its own shape and color, which wax and wane like the moon."

Haruki Murakami, Japanese Writer

Thought, Mind, Change, Perception

"A perfectly healthy sentence, it is true, is extremely rare. For the most part we miss the hue and fragrance of the thought; as if we could be satisfied with the dews of the morning or evening without their colors, or the heavens without their azure."

Henry David Thoreau, American Author

Thought, Truth, Language, Perception, Mindfulness

"Once the last trace of emotion has been eradicated, nothing remains of thought but absolute tautology."

Theodor Adorno, German Philosopher

Thought, Emotion, Nothing

"Yeah, but what if you went back and killed your own grandfather?"He stared at me, baffled. "Why the fuck would you do that?"

Stephen King, American Author

Thought, Time, Paradox, Humor, Curiosity

"Knowledge is life."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

Thought, Knowledge, Life, Growth, Insight

"I have often thought that if a rational Fascist dictatorship were to exist, then it would choose the American system."

Noam Chomsky, American Activist

Thought, Dictatorship

"Words do not express thoughts very well. They always become a little different immediately after they are expressed, a little distorted, a little foolish."

Hermann Hesse, German Novelist

Thought, Thoughts, Words

"When a book raises your spirit, and inspires you with noble and manly thoughts, seek for no other test of its excellence. It is good, and made by a good workman."

Jean de la Bruyere, French Philosopher

Thought, Thoughts, Excellence, Spirit

"I'm often asked what I think about as I run. Usually the people who ask this have never run long distances themselves. I always ponder the question. What exactly do I think about when I'm running? I don't have a clue."

Haruki Murakami, Japanese Writer

Thought, Running, Question, Exercise

"Words without thoughts never to heaven go."

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

Thought, Thoughts, Heaven, Words

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"I got treated very badly in Texas. They don't treat beatniks too good in Texas. Port Arthur people thought I was a beatnik, though they'd never seen one and neither had I."

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"I'm one of those regular weird people."

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"You know why we're stuck with the myth that only black people have soul? Because white people don't let themselves feel things."

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"If I hold back, I'm no good. I'm no good. I'd rather be good sometimes, than holding back all the time."

Time

"On stage I make love to twenty five thousand people; and then I go home alone."

Home

"When I sing, I feel like when you're first in love. It's more than sex. It's that point two people can get to they call love, when you really touch someone for the first time, but it's gigantic, multiplied by the whole audience. I feel chills."

Love

"Texas is OK if you want to settle down and do your own thing quietly, but it's not for outrageous people, and I was always outrageous."

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"Each "way of thinking" has its own shape and color, which wax and wane like the moon."

"A perfectly healthy sentence, it is true, is extremely rare. For the most part we miss the hue and fragrance of the thought; as if we could be satisfied with the dews of the morning or evening without their colors, or the heavens without their azure."

"Once the last trace of emotion has been eradicated, nothing remains of thought but absolute tautology."

"Yeah, but what if you went back and killed your own grandfather?"He stared at me, baffled. "Why the fuck would you do that?"

"Knowledge is life."

"I have often thought that if a rational Fascist dictatorship were to exist, then it would choose the American system."

"Words do not express thoughts very well. They always become a little different immediately after they are expressed, a little distorted, a little foolish."

"When a book raises your spirit, and inspires you with noble and manly thoughts, seek for no other test of its excellence. It is good, and made by a good workman."

"I'm often asked what I think about as I run. Usually the people who ask this have never run long distances themselves. I always ponder the question. What exactly do I think about when I'm running? I don't have a clue."

"Words without thoughts never to heaven go."

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"Audiences like their blues singers to be miserable."

"My father wouldn't get us a TV, he wouldn't allow a TV in the house."

"I won't quit to become someone's old lady."

"I got treated very badly in Texas. They don't treat beatniks too good in Texas. Port Arthur people thought I was a beatnik, though they'd never seen one and neither had I."

"I'm one of those regular weird people."

"You know why we're stuck with the myth that only black people have soul? Because white people don't let themselves feel things."

"If I hold back, I'm no good. I'm no good. I'd rather be good sometimes, than holding back all the time."

"On stage I make love to twenty five thousand people; and then I go home alone."

"When I sing, I feel like when you're first in love. It's more than sex. It's that point two people can get to they call love, when you really touch someone for the first time, but it's gigantic, multiplied by the whole audience. I feel chills."

"Texas is OK if you want to settle down and do your own thing quietly, but it's not for outrageous people, and I was always outrageous."