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“When you're angry with yourself for knowing what you should do and how, and yet not being brave enough to do it, you begin to feel disappointed with and to hate yourself. People who dislike and aren't proud of themselves, find it hard to be happy.”
― Arrival of Dawn
― Arrival of Dawn
“It is good literature
If the main characters
Understand
How stupid
They are
It does not need a plucking
Out
Of eyes
Or
A tragic
To be or not to be
Speech
Great stories
Simply go on.
Time
Oblivion
Crushes us all
It is not special magic
So tell your story
The Way it is
Admin your
Idiocy
Your
Humanity
And you are
On your way to
Greatness
Empathy
Honesty
Ultimately
Nothing
That which we all share
One day
One night
The seats will be empty and
The curtain will simply
Fall”
― Pura Neta
If the main characters
Understand
How stupid
They are
It does not need a plucking
Out
Of eyes
Or
A tragic
To be or not to be
Speech
Great stories
Simply go on.
Time
Oblivion
Crushes us all
It is not special magic
So tell your story
The Way it is
Admin your
Idiocy
Your
Humanity
And you are
On your way to
Greatness
Empathy
Honesty
Ultimately
Nothing
That which we all share
One day
One night
The seats will be empty and
The curtain will simply
Fall”
― Pura Neta
“I'm the capital for one of the most profitable money making institutions in modern history: the prisons. Man, before they had gente pickin cotton or coffee or lettuce, but now they don't even need our muscles, Homes! They just throw us in these cages where we play dominoes and spades while they cash in on our spirits. My actual body is their capital, their profit. I feed the guards, lawyers, and judges' children and educate them through college, so they can then before the lawyers that lock all of our asses up!...Come on, man. The California prison guard union is the strongest prison union in the world. The aint here to guard us from society; they're here to protect their investment: me.”
― Pura Neta
― Pura Neta
“People afraid of outsiders are easily manipulated. The warrior caste, supposedly society's protectors, often become protection racketeers. In times of war or crisis, power is easily stolen from the many by the few on a promise of security. The more elusive or imaginary the foe, the better for manufacturing consent. The Inquisition did a roaring trade against the Devil.”
― A Short History of Progress
― A Short History of Progress
“I have a very limited time left in this marvelous form of stardust which I’ve been talking about over the past few months. I don’t feel any dread. I want to assure you that I don’t feel fear about this. It seems very petty to complain about the eventual dissipation of my stardust back into the stardust of the cosmos after having lived 72 years in this extraordinary form of existence that very few molecules in the entire universe get to experience. Indeed, to even use the word "experience" with respect to my stardust is amazing. Atoms don’t have experiences. They’re just stuff. That’s all I really am is stuff. But stuff so complexly organized across several thresholds of stuff-complexity, that it’s able to reflect upon its stuff-ness and what an extraordinary thing it has been to be alive and aware that it’s alive and aware that it’s aware that it’s alive.”
― Stardust to Stardust: Reflections on Living and Dying
― Stardust to Stardust: Reflections on Living and Dying
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