"Oft in my way have I stood still, though but a casual passenger, so much I felt the awfulness of life."
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"I've only been in unrequited relationships where people haven't loved me back. I guess I'm a little bit attracted to that in a bad way."
"Surely all art is the result of one's having been in danger, of having gone through an experience all the way to the end, where no one can go any further."
"Hair excited me. As the old ways - backcombing, rollers and rigidity - went out of the window, I started to feel the possibilities in front of my eyes."
"The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way."
"I planted some jokes in my wedding. Like, the organizers asked me to select music. So when I approached wife at the ceremony, they played the second movement from Shostakovich's 10th Symphony, which is usually known as the "portrait of Stalin." And then when we embraced, the music that they played was Schubert's "Death and the Maiden." I enjoyed this in a childish way! But marriage was all a nightmare and so on and so on."
"Get out of your own way. Often, we're our own worst enemy when working towards our goals."
"You discarded most of the lies along the way but held on to the one that said life mattered."
"Your magnificence has made me a wonder. Your charm has taught me the way of love."
"There are no masses; there are only ways of seeing people as masses"
"I always felt a bit alone and isolated from other people...I did a lot of pretending as a child. It was my way of coping with the fact that I didn't feel like I fit in."
"The way you spend Christmas is far more important than how much."
"Socialism is... not only a way of life, but a certain scientific approach to social and economic problems."
"Poetry isn't a profession, it's a way of life. It's an empty basket; you put your life into it and make something out of that."
"The way of the mind is to study many things; the way of the Beingness is to focus on one thing."
"until the theologians and the ordained clergy begin to communicate with ordinary people in the vernacular, in a way that they can understand, I’m going to have to do this sort of thing."
"Stress is wanting something to be the way it isn't."
"Choose always the way that seems the best, however rough it may be; custom will soon render it easy and agreeable."
"I do enjoy running down a ditch full of mud, firing bullets. It’s the way I am. I love it."
"Art is not a thing; it is a way."