"The writing of poetry is a chancy business, it's currency solitude and loss, its tools coffee and too much wine, its hours midnight, dawn, and dusk, and unlike other trade the hours asleep are not time off."

-- Keith Miller

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“The more the ensemble, the duet or the forty piece orchestra, plays as one person, the more it makes people dance, because you're back in the womb. You feel mom's heartbeat. It makes you move. It reminds you of that warm, groovy space you were in.”

Source : "John Densmore on Life, Love, Meditation and His New Book, 'The Doors: Unhinged'". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.
“Your friend is intellectually honourable," Jimmy's mother would say. "He doesn't lie to himself.”
“It is all very well to be cautious, but if we are too cautious we will miss our opportunity.”

Source : "The Rising Sun: The Decline and Fall of the Japanese Empire" by John Toland, (p. 754), 2003.
“Has there ever been an age so rife with neurotic sensibility, with that state of near shudders, or near hysteria, or near nausea, much of it induced by trifles, which used to belong to people who were at once ill-adjusted and over-civilized?”
“She told me I wasn't playing for the coach, I was playing for myself.”
“The preservation of health is a duty. Few seem conscious that there is such a thing as physical morality.”
“I avoid going through places where there's too much poverty.”
“You get America out of Iraq, you get Israel out of Palestine.”

Source : "Readings from Howard Zinn’s 'Voices of a People’s History of the United States'". "Democracy Now!" with Amy Goodman, www.democracynow.org. February 20, 2006.

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