"The first function of poetry is to tell the truth, to learn how to do that, to find out what you really feel and what you really think"

-- June Jordan

#Thinking Quotes #Firsts Quotes #Telling The Truth Quotes

“We start off with high hopes, then we bottle it. We realise that weâ€™re all going to die, without really finding out the big answers. We develop all those long-winded ideas which just interpret the reality of our lives in different ways, without really extending our body of worthwhile knowledge, about the big things, the real things. Basically, we live a short disappointing life; and then we die. We fill up our lives with shite, things like careers and relationships to delude ourselves that it isnâ€™t all totally pointless.”
“They are trying to make me into a fixed star. I am an irregular planet.”
“I love collecting guitars, even though I can't play well. My favourite guitarists are Richie Blackmore, Jimmy Paige, and John Mayer.”
“I used to do poetry and write stories and stuff - I never really had anybody standing over my shoulder, like, "What did you write? Let me hear it." I hate that type of stuff.”

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“People with BPD are like people with third degree burns over 90% of their bodies. Lacking emotional skin, they feel agony at the slightest touch or movement.”
“The world is divided into two categories: failures and unknowns.”
“Drug use makes you snappy, and you get very bad-tempered and have terrible hangovers.”
“does a society exist where it's become acceptable to wear 'helmets' enclosing one's entire head when in public to preempt social interaction”

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