"A good addiction is a contradiction in terms. Anything people can't give up or must have is not healthy, no matter what the activity."

-- Jody Dean

#Giving Up Quotes #Addiction Quotes #People Quotes

“And then, for an old man like me, it's not exactly right,This kind o' playing soldier with no enemy in sight.”
“And I do think that good art - the art that tends to last - is that art that hits human beings on several different levels at once because everybody's different. Some people approach art through their emotions, others through their head, and the art that can appeal to all of those levels is more likely to reach more people. Having more people see the work doesn't necessarily mean better art but it stands a better chance of lasting.”

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“The largest part of what we call 'personality' is determined by how we've opted to defend ourselves against anxiety and sadness".”
“The President of the United States thinks that for the Japanese opium is more dangerous than war.”
“Now I know surely and forever, However much I have blotted our Waking love, its memory is still there. And I know the web, the net, The blind and crippled bird. For then, for One brief instant it was not blind, nor Trapped, not crippled. For one heart beat the Heart was free and moved itself. O love, I who am lost and damned with words, Whose words are a business and an art, I have no words. These words, this poem, this Is all confusion and ignorance. But I know that coached by your sweet heart, My heart beat one free beat and sent Through all my flesh the blood of truth.”

Source : "She Is Away". Poem by Kenneth Rexroth. "In Defense of the Earth". Book by Kenneth Rexroth, www-personal.umich.edu. 1956.
“Life is not all about profundity. Life is about little things that piss you off, little triumphs, little defeats. So, you can't spend all your time being profound.”

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“We have not to fear anything, except fear itself.”
“I think education is power. I think that being able to communicate with people is power. One of my main goals on the planet is to encourage people to empower themselves.”

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