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“We fear violence less than our own feelings. Personal, private, solitary pain is more terrifying than what anyone else can inflict.”
― Jim Morrison

“A man searching for paradise lost can seem a fool to those who never sought the other world.”
― James Douglas Morrison

“One shouldn't take life so seriously. No one gets out alive anyway.”
― Jim Morrison

“She dances in a ring of fire and throws off the challenge with a shrug.”
― Jim Morrison, Wilderness: The Lost Writings, Vol. 1

“If critics say your work stinks it's because they want it to stink and they can make it stink by scaring you into conformity with their comfortable little standards. Standards so low that they can no longer be considered "dangerous" but set in place in their compartmental understandings.”
― Jack Kerouac

“None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Every impulse we strangle will only poison us.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“The first and most important thing an individual can do is to become an individual again, decontrol himself, train himself as to what is going on and win back as much independent ground for himself as possible”
― William S. Burroughs

“I spit on the Christian God. When the White God arrived with the Spaniards, the Indians brought down fruit and corncakes and chocolate. The White Christian God proceeded to cut their hands off. He was not responsible for the Christian conquistadors? Yes, he was. Any God is responsible for his worshippers.”
― William S. Burroughs, The Western Lands