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"It is better to light a candle than curse the darkness."

"Yes, it's a well-known fact about you: you're like death, you take everything."

"In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present."

"It is like visiting one's funeral, like visiting loss in its purest and most monumental form, this wild darkness, which is not only unknown but which one cannot enter as oneself."

"I think we both have some darkness in us. But when we are together, we tend to concentrate more on the light."

"Most of us are imprisoned by something. We're living in darkness until something flips on the switch."

"It had been a bad trip ... fast and wild in some moments, slow and dirty in others, but on balance it looked like a bummer. On my way back to San Francisco, I tried to compose a fitting epitaph. I wanted something original, but there was no escaping the echo of Mistah Kurtz' final words from the heart of darkness: "The horror! The horror! ... Exterminate all the brutes!"

"I like their darkness but I also like the pop-side of the Velvet Underground."
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"Our 'neoconservatives' are neither new nor conservative, but old as Bablyon and evil as Hell."

"Say what you like about my bloody murderous government,' I says, 'but don't insult me poor bleedin' country."

"The missionaries go forth to Christianize the savages - as if the savages weren't dangerous enough already."

"I took the other road, all right, but only because it was the easy road for me, the way I wanted to go. If I've encountered some unnecessary resistance that's because most of the traffic is going the other way."

"Instant communication is not communication at all but merely a frantic, trivial, nerve-wracking bombardment of cliches, threats, fads, fashions, gibberish and advertising."

"May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds."

"There is a certain animal vitality in most of us which carries us through any trouble but the absolutely overwhelming. Only a fool has no sorrow, only an idiot has no grief - but then only a fool and an idiot will let grief and sorrow ride him down into the grave."
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