"Who knows what may lie around the next corner? There may be a window somewhere ahead. It may look out on a field of sunflowers."
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"I mean, when the world comes for your children, with the knives out, it's your job to stand in the way."
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"Don't believe everything you hear today"
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"Workers of the world awaken. Break your chains, demand your rights. All the wealth you make is taken, by exploiting parasites. Shall you kneel in deep submission from your cradle to your grave? Is the height of your ambition to be a good and willing slave?"
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"I will die like a true-blue rebel. Don't waste any time in mourning - organize."
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"All the world is made of music. We are all strings on a lyre. We resonate. We sing together."
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"The best way to get even with anyone is to put them in the rearview mirror on your way to something better."
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"I guess Satan was the first superhero [...] In his first adventure, he took the form of a snake to free two prisoners being held naked in a Third World jungle prison by an all-powerful megalomaniac. At the same time, he broadened their diet and introduced them to their own sexuality."
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"A pamphlet, no matter how good, is never read more than once, but a song is learned by heart and repeated over and over. And I maintain that if a person can put a few common sense facts into a song and dress them up in a cloak of humor, he will succeed in reaching a great number of workers who are too unintelligent or too indifferent to read."
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"Music [is] the third rail of life. You grabbed it to shock yourself out of the dull drag of hours. To feel something. To burn with all the emotions you didn't get to experience in the ordinary run of school, TV, and loading the dishwasher after dinner."
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"I will be waiting by candlelight in our tree house of the mind."
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"Was there any human urge more pitiful-or more intense- than wanting another chance at something?"
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"... people made the imaginary real all the time: taking the music they heard in their head and recording it, seeing a house in their imagination and building it. Fantasy was always only a reality waiting to be switched on."
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"If the workers took a notion they could stop all speeding trains; every ship upon the ocean they can tie with mighty chains."
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"Longhaired preachers come out every night, Tryin' to tell us what's wrong and what's right. But when asked about something to eat, They will tell you in voices so sweet. You will eat (You will eat!) By and by, (By and by!) In that glorious land in the sky. (Way up high!) Work and pray, live on hay, You'll get pie in the sky when you die. (That's a lie!)"
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"But God fears women even more that He fears the devil- and is right to. She, with her power to bring life into the world, was truly made in the image of the Creator, not man."
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"I remind myself that no one day of writing matters all that much. A story is built somewhat like a stalactite - one little drip of mud and grit at a time."
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"Well. That's helpful. We'll put an APB out on the Gingerbread Man. I'm not hopeful it'll do us much good, though. Word on the street is you can't catch him."
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"You think you know someone. But mostly you just know what you want to know."
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"She breathed deeply of the scent of decaying fiction, disintegrating history, and forgotten verse, and she observed for the first time that a room full of books smelled like dessert: a sweet snack made of figs, vanilla, glue, and cleverness."
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