I am not your fairytale.

D I S C O U R S E
M A T T E R S
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Years ago in Greenwich Village, in the long-lost days when radicals sometimes spoke from "soap boxes", I was about to start a speech in Sheridan Square late one afternoon when a cop came up and told me to stop. I didn't say "Look, you wretched running dog of the imperialist state, I know the Constitution, I have a right to speak, and I defy you to arrest me". Instead I said "I think I have a right to speak, However I'll get down while you check with your captain. After fifteen minutes, when you've had a chance to check it, I'll get back up and speak - if your captain thinks it is legal to arrest me, then you can". The cop walked off, fifteen minutes later I got up and kept on talking - the cop never returned.
[David McReynolds]
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You're only given a little spark of madness. You musn't lose it.
[Robin Williams]
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The only people for me are the mad ones, the mad ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say commonplace things but burn, burn, burn, like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars...
[Jack Kerouac]
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Books won't stay banned. They won't burn. Ideas won't go to jail. In the long run of history, the censor and the inquisitor have always lost. The only weapon against bad ideas is better ideas.
[Alfred Whitney Griswold]
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If you can't take a bloody nose, then maybe you ought to go back home and crawl under your bed. It's not safe out here. It's wondrous....with treasures to satiate desires both subtle and gross. But it's not for the timid.
[Star Trek]
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Go without a coat when it's cold; find out what cold is. Go hungry; keep your existence lean. Wear away the fat, get down to the lean tissue and see what it's all about. The only time you define your character is when you go without. In times of hardship, you find out what you're made of and what you're capable of. If you're never tested, you'll never define your character.
[Henry Rollins]
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Thank you for touching me. Some of the only moments worth living were spent with you. Not you especially, the collective you.
[Henry Rollins]
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I know that I brought this all on myself. I know I deserve this. I'd do anything not to be this way. I'd do anything to make it up to everyone. [...] Just tell me how to be different in a way that makes sense. To make this all go away. And disappear. I know that's wrong because it's my responsibility, and I know that things get worse before they get better, but this is a worse that feels too big.
[Stephen Chbosky]
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I've said it before and I'll say it again: kneecaps only exist to get hit with claw-hammers; grace only exists to be fallen from.
[Glen Duncan]
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Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that. Hate multiplies hate, violence multiplies violence, and toughness multiplies toughness in a descending spiral of destruction. The chain reaction of evil, hate begetting hate, wars producing more wars must be broken, or we shall be plunged into the dark abyss of annihilation. Hate destroys a man's sense of values and his objectivity. It causes him to describe the beautiful as ugly and the ugly as beautiful, and to confuse the true with the false and the false with the true.
[MLK JR.]
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I believe that today more than ever a book should be sought after even if it has only one great page in it. We must search for fragments, splinters, toenails, anything that has ore in it, anything that is capable of resuscitating the body and soul.
[Henry Rollins]
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Everything is always okay in the end. If things aren't okay, then it's not the end.
[Anon.]
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I must create my own system, or be enslaved by another man's.
[William Blake]
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We are made to bleed.
And scab, and heal, and bleed again.
And turn every scar into a joke.
We are made to fight.
And fuck, and talk, and fight again.
And sit around and laugh until we choke.
[Ani Difranco]
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Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.
[Ralph Waldo Emerson]
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What a man sees or hears depends a great deal upon where he is standing. It also depends on what sort of person he is.
[CS Lewis]
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Patriotism assumes that our globe is divided into little spots, each one surrounded by an iron gate. Those who have had the fortune of being born on some particular spot, consider themselves better, nobler, grander, more intelligent than the living beings inhabiting any other spot. It is, therefore, the duty of everyone living on that chosen spot to fight, kill, and die in the attempt to impose his superiority upon all others. The inhabitants of the other spots reason like manner, of course.
[Emma Goldman]
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Sometimes there's so much beauty in the world, I feel like I can't take it, like my heart will cave in.
[American Beauty]
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If all mankind minus one were of one opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind.
[JS Mill]
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Everyone has their own form of heroin.
[Kurt Cobain]
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Do I contradict myself? Fine, then I contradict myself.
I am large; I contain multitudes.
[Walt Whitman]
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If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is a part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves does not disturb us.
[Hermann Hesse]
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If you hate your parents, the man or the establishment, don't show them up by getting wasted and wrapping your car around a tree. If you really want to rebel against your parents: out learn them, out live them, and know more than they do.
[Henry Rollins]
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The reasonable man adapts himself to the world. The unreasonable man persists in trying to adapt the world to himself.
Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
[George Bernard Shaw]
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This was not a fairy tale. This was not the movies. This was life. It hurt more. It was excruciating. It was excruciatingly beautiful.
[Francesca Lia Block]
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Self-hate is self-obsession.
[Oscar Wilde]
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When was the last time you wanted to say it all to the right person? to have it all come out right, to surprise yourself with how together you could be. When was the last time you ever met someone who made you want to give it all to them? I mean give yourself to them. Where you couldn't express yourself enough-like you wanted to cut off one of your arms to be understood. That's it--you would cut your head off to have someone understand you. You know how pointless that one is. You know how many times you've smashed yourself to bits on the rocks.
[Henry Rollins]
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I am. I am. I am.
[Silvia Plath]
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I don't need no one to hold me, I can hold my own.
[Ani Difranco]
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