"Those nations of artists, finding their own individualism, and kind of standing against the world: to me that's the ultimate nightmare. I want to get lost and diffused in the world."

-- Robert Wyatt

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“There is no fouler fiend than a woman when her mind is bent to evil.”
“I'm good with a grill. I like to make cheeseburgers - I once read in a David Goodis crime novel that you're only supposed to flip a burger once.”
“I wouldn't want to be around anyone that would want me around.”
“In India, there are real consequences to inattention; drivers who jeopardize pedestrians can be lynched on the spot.”
“I came back to Louisville after the Olympics with my shiny gold medal. Went into a luncheonette where black folks couldn't eat. Thought I'd put them on the spot. I sat down and asked for a meal. The Olympic champion wearing his gold medal. They said, "We don't serve ***** here." I said, "That's okay, I don't eat 'em." But they put me out in the street. So I went down to the river, the Ohio River, and threw my gold medal in it.”
“Energy, energy? Energy is, is, it's nothing more than a lot of new age hokum masquerading as religion.”
“You deny that man is really so prejudiced as I suppose him; talk to him then of some foreign country, ask him what religion he is of.”
“The purpose of life for man is growth, just as the purpose of life for trees and plants is growth. Trees and plants grow automatically and along fixed lines; man can grow as he will. Trees and plants can only develop certain possibilities and characteristics; man can develop any power which is or has been shown by any person anywhere. Nothing that is possible in spirit is impossible in flesh and blood. Nothing that man can think is impossible. Nothing that man can imagine is impossible of realization.”

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