"A community is an alibi for the failure of individual love."
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"I've seen the future and it's murder."
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"We actually lead very violent, passionate lives and I think that we're hungry for insights into this condition. That's why we get all that stuff on television. It's really where we are, really what we are."
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"Stunned and still not suffering. Swollen with care and anxiety and still not suffering. Useless, old and full of grief, but still not suffering."
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"I've never thought of myself as a religious person."
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"Adam [Cohen] is a great singer-songwriter in his own right."
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"To have [Adam's Cohen] microscopic attention to my work was really a great privilege."
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"Everyone has a kind of magical system that they employ in the hopes that this will open up the channels."
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"Well I see you there with the rose in your teeth One more thin gypsy thief... Yes, and thanks, for the trouble you took from her eyes I thought it was there for good so I never tried... And Jane came by with a lock of your hair She said that you gave it to her That night that you planned to go clear."
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"It just takes a long time for me [to write a song]. I'm very slow. And it comes, kind of, by dribbles and drops."
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"If you're lucky, you can keep the vehicle healthy and responsive over the years. If you're lucky, your own intentions have very little to do with this."
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"When you're not feeling holy, your loneliness says that you've sinned."
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"I think that all the spiritual training is just to be able to allow you to experience this from a slightly different perspective - one that's a little more stabilized."
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"This particular school of Zen has always considered itself the Marines of the spiritual world, so it has a kind of bias against conceptual thinking in favor of a very rigorous physical life."
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"Show me slowly what I only know the limits of Dance me to the end of love"
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"Games are nature's most beautiful creation"
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"He hated the men floating in sleep in the big stone houses. Because their lives were ordered and their rooms tidy. Because they got up every morning and did their public work. Because they weren't going to dynamite their factories and have naked parties in the fire."
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"I bargain now. I offer buttons for his love."
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"Love is a fire/It burns everyone/It disfigures everyone/It is the world's excuse for being ugly."
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"I lit a thin green candle to make you jealous of me, but the room just filled up with mosquitoes."
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