Paul Cantor

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The first study of the man who wishes to be a poet is complete knowledge of himself

Rimbaud

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It doesn’t matter how good or bad the product is, the fact is that people don’t read anymore.

Steve Jobs

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Bring on the crazy!

Christian Bale

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Everybody is the hero in their own narrative.

Allan Moore

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Don't play the notes. Play the music.

Miles Davis

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Educated in a small town Taught the fear of Jesus in a small town Used to daydream in that small town Another boring romantic that's me

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I adored the way she modified my mornings When I'd wake up in the calm shoals of her bed Somersaults or smoke in a universe of sleep Before she slipped into her heritage and disappeared And she taught me to relight, relight and relight again

David Berman -- “Saturday Night Inside Out”

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Forgive me if I don't have the words. Maybe I can sing it & you'll understand.

Ella Fitzgerald

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The fear of death is the driving fear of life.

Nick Tosches

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Play your own way. Don't play what the public wants. You play what you want and let the public pick up on what you are doing. Even if it takes them 15 or 20 years.

Thelonious Monk

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Animals strike, not from malice, but because they want to live; it is the same with those who criticize, they desire our blood, not our pain.

Michael Jackson 

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