"In its relation to the reality of daily life, the high culture of the past was many things opposition and adornment, outcry and resignation. But it was also the appearance of the realm of freedom: the refusal to behave."

-- Herbert Marcuse

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“At their best, religious and spiritual communities help us discover this pure and naked spiritual encounter. At their worst, they simply make us more ashamed, pressuring us to cover up more, pushing us to further enhance our image with the best designer labels and latest spiritual fads, weighing us down with layer upon layer of heavy, uncomfortable, pretentious, well-starched religiosity.”
“People who are poor, they suffer a lot. And people drink a lot and people take a lot of downers and there's a lot of unemployment.”
“I remember the first sermon I ever preached. I had four sermons. I preached them, all four in ten minutes. And that was the beginning, in a place called Bostwick, Florida, in northern Florida, in a little tiny church, and on a cold night, about 40 people. And I was so nervous.”
“The whole drift of our law is toward the absolute prohibition of all ideas that diverge in the slightest form from the accepted platitudes, and behind that drift of law there is a far more potent force of growing custom, and under that custom there is a natural philosophy which erects conformity into the noblest of virtues and the free functioning of personality into a capital crime against society.”
“If you're gonna fall apart, do it in your own bedroom.”

Source : "No kidding" by Chris Roberts, www.theguardian.com. April 8, 2005.
“Don't corral me, and I'll always come home. Just let me go out and play during the day.”
“Wafted up, The stealing cloud with soft grey blinds the sky And in its vapory mantle onward steps The summer shower.”

Source : Alfred Billings Street (1850). “The Poems of Alfred B. Street”, p.20
“Loss either teaches you to persist in the face of suffering, or hardens you into a bitter cynic. Sometimes, it does a little of both.”

Source : "Somebody to Love? A Rock-and-Roll Memoir". Book by Grace Slick and Andrea Cagan, 1998.

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