"It appears to general observation, that revolutions create genius and talents; but those events do no more than bring them forward. There is existing in man, a mass of sense lying in a dormant state, and which, unless something excites it to action, will descend with him, in that condition, to the grave. As it is to the advantage of society that the whole of its faculties should be employed, the construction of government ought to be such as to bring forward, by a quiet and regular operation, all that extent of capacity which never fails to appear in revolutions."

-- Thomas Paine

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“I'm a special drunkard... I drink too much.”

Source : "Character: Bon Scott". "AC/DC: Let There Be Rock", www.imdb.com. 1980.
“I want to make someone walk straight, but I've left my sons nothing but wars.”
“I follow the rules until I go against them all.”

Source : 1993 On translating her large, lyrical abstracts from paintings to prints. In the Washington Times, 16 Apr.
“If you tell certain people that you like Kerouac, they assume that's all you read, like you don't know anything else about literature. I recognize all the things that people dislike about the way he writes - his tone and the sentimentality of it all. But those books were there for me at a very important point in my life.”

Source : "The Meaning of Life" by Ben Gibbard, www.pastemagazine.com. April 10, 2008.
“The desire to annoy no one, to harm no one, can equally well be the sign of a just as of an anxious disposition.”
“Fear is a very explosive emotion, but it has a short life span. It's the sprint. The marathon is hope.”
“Once or twice a day, I am enveloped inside what I like to call the Impenetrable Shield of Melancholy. This shield, it is impenetrable. Hence the name. I cannot speak. And while I can feel myself freeze up, I can't do anything about it.”
“Now with the Internet, a celebrity is fair game, and it's all designed to sell advertising space.”

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