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You've got to bend with the wind or you're broken.


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Why is it that, as a culture, we are more comfortable seeing two men holding guns than holding hands?

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Sometimes you got to hurt something to help something. Sometimes you have to plow under one thing in order for something else to grow.

Sometimes you got to hurt something to help something. Sometimes you have to plow under one thing in order for something else to grow.



I have no more to say except this: We must live with our own conscience.

I have no more to say except this: We must live with our own conscience.



Question everything. Every stripe, every star, every word spoken. Everything.

Question everything. Every stripe, every star, every word spoken. Everything.



I want you to show them the difference between what they think you are and what you can be.

I want you to show them the difference between what they think you are and what you can be.



I write to try to find out who I am. One of my main themes is manliness. I think I'm trying to figure out what manliness really is.

I write to try to find out who I am. One of my main themes is manliness. I think I'm trying to figure out what manliness really is.



Words mean nothing. Action is the only thing. Doing. That's the only thing.

Words mean nothing. Action is the only thing. Doing. That's the only thing.



Without love for my fellow man and respect for nature, to me, life is an obscenity.

Without love for my fellow man and respect for nature, to me, life is an obscenity.



Nietzsche said without music, life would be a mistake. To me, without books, life would be a mistake.

Nietzsche said without music, life would be a mistake. To me, without books, life would be a mistake.



The Six Golden Rules of Writing: Read, read, read, and write, write, write.

The Six Golden Rules of Writing: Read, read, read, and write, write, write.





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Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends... Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts.

Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends... Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts.



If God is incomprehensible to man, it would seem rational never to think of Him at all.

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A face at the window, a tap on the pane, who is it that wants me tonight in the rain?

A face at the window, a tap on the pane, who is it that wants me tonight in the rain?



Eat better or work out more, and youll see the benefits weeks, months or years down the road. Sleep more, and youll see the benefits tomorrow.

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