what a horrible loutish planet this is. the dominant species consists of sadistic morons, faces bearing the hideous lineaments of spiritual famine swollen with stupid hate. hopeless rubbish.

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There is nothing more provocative than minding your own business.

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Build a good name. Keep your name clean. Don't make compromises. Don't worry about making a bunch of money or being successful. Be concerned with doing good work and make the right choices and protect your work. And if you can build a good name, eventually, that name will be its own currency.

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The simplest questions are the most difficult.

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Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the fact.

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When you cut into the present the future leaks out.

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Whether you like it or not, you are committed to the human endeavor. I cannot ally myself with such a purely negative goal as avoidance of suffering. Suffering is a chance you take by the fact of being alive.

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The best way to keep something bad from happening is to see it ahead of time... and you can't see it if you refuse to face the possibility.

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No one is ever really alone. You are part of everything alive.

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Every word is autobiographical, and every word is fiction.

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