"Loneliness adds beauty to life. It puts a special burn on sunsets and makes night air smell better."
"It's good to be able to deal with it [anger] somehow other than drinking, fighting, crashing cars, hitting your kid, your wife, your husband, your whatever. Paintbrushes, pens, movie cameras, guitars, microphones, typewriters -- these are good things. Weights. These are positive ways, good ways to deal with anger, frustration, alienation, rage. 'Cause all the other ways do nothing but hurt people."
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Source: Henry Rollins (2009). “The Portable Henry Rollins”, p.290, Villard
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