"Writing and performing should deepen the meaning of words, should illuminate, transfix and transform."

-- Bell Hooks

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“Growing up, me and my brother, we were kind of exact opposites. We were completely yin and yang. He was more rough and tumble, and I just wanted to play with my girlfriends.”
“My eccentricity became direction.”
“I am not a hero in soul and never will be, but I am better than I was before. Or so I tell myself; and for now that is enough.”

Source : Andrew Davidson (2008). “The Gargoyle”, p.400, Canongate Books
“Funny, I'd forgotten that what comes to you when you take a psychedelic is not always a revelation of something new and startling; you're more liable to find yourself reminded of simple things you know and forgot you knew - seeing them freshly - old, basic truths that long ago became cliches, so you stopped paying attention to them.”

Source : Alexander Shulgin, Ann Shulgin (1995). “Pihkal: A Chemical Love Story”
“The anguish in London is a vivid reminder of why we cannot relent in taking the steps necessary to defend our homeland from the present terrorist threat.”
“Give your heart to everybody you meet. The rest is pretense.”

Source : Ethan Hawke (2002). “Ash Wednesday: A Novel”, Alfred A. Knopf
“I said to my wife just the other day, I was actually taking some time to consider all the blessings in my life and that things are really good. I said, you would have to be a real churl to complain about the life I'm living right now. Everything's going great. I'm having a good time.”
“A lot of the bands I loved, I didn't know where they came from or where they were going.”

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