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Not That The Writers Weren't Good. I Believe In Those Books And Those Writers Very Much. It's Just That In The Climate It's Really Hard To Keep The Lights On And The Doors Open When You're Selling Poetry And Literature That Appeals To A Fringe Audience.

-Henry Rollins

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Not That The Writers

Henry Rollins

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Not That The Writers Weren't Good. I Believe In Those Books And Those Writers Very Much. It's Just That In The Climate It's Really Hard To Keep The Lights On And The Doors Open When You're Selling Poetry And Literature That Appeals To A Fringe Audience.

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Falling In Love

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Misery, Depression, Elation All Mine, Refine Confinement All My Design.

As You Do With Any Band You're In, You Get To Know Everyone Too Well All Too Soon. When You're Crammed Into A Small Space, Proximity Leads To Familiarity.

All I Have Is Me. Over-worked, Under-appreciated, Middle-aged, And Shriveled Up.

If You Really Want To Rebel Against Your Parents: Outearn Them, Outlive Them, And Know More Than They Do.

The Month Of November Makes Me Feel That Life Is Passing More Quickly. In An Effort To Slow It Down, I Try To Fill The Hours More Meaningfully.

I Don't Want To Fail The Audience. I Don't Want To Let Them Down.

I Don't Know If Music Has Ever Achieved Anything Past Appealing To The People That It Appeals To. If A Song Could Stop A War, Then Bob Marley And Bob Dylan Songs Would Have Stopped One Or Two.

I Know That Collector Types Can Be A Pain In The Neck And Seem Perpetually Frozen In Time - Or At Least In Their Parents' Basement - But Someone Has To Look Out For The Past, Lest It Slip Away Forever.

I Come From A Minimum Wage Working World, As We All Did For At Least Some Part Of Our Lives, And That Is Never Out Of My Rearview. I've Never Forgotten How Much Your Feet Hurt After You've Stood On Them For Like 12 Hours. And How The Drudgery Of A Job You Hate Craps On Your Entire Life; How You Treat Other People, How You Treat Yourself, And It Really Was Getting To Me.

Keep Your Blood Clean, Your Body Lean, And Your Mind Sharp.

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I Am Neither Pro- Nor Anti-gun. I Am Gun-conscious.

While I Disagree With Our Presence In Iraq And Afghanistan, I Have Nothing But Respect And Admiration For The Men And Women Deployed In These Places.

I Forged Myself Out Of A Vacuum. I Crawl Along The Highway On Hacked Off Stumps Year After Year. Some Wonder How And Why. I Never Do.

For Me The Music Is Not So Much Anger As Much As It Is Of Passion. And I've Always Associated That Kind Of Intense Emotional Output With Music Just Because The Nature Of The Music That's Attracted Me As Far As Live.

Contemporary Bands Often Will Do Tour-only Releases Pressed And Sold Only In Australia. Crikey!

I Have Come To Regard November As The Older, Harder Man's October. I Appreciate The Early Darkness And Cooler Temperatures. It Puts My Mind In A Different Place Than October. It Is A Month For A Quieter, Slightly More Subdued Celebration Of Summer's Death As Winter Tightens Its Grip.

I Don't Mind Bees And Think We Are All The Better For Having Them Around. I Like The Taste Of Honey.

I Think Hip-hop Has Definitely Brought The Black Experience To White Kids More Than The Civil Rights Movement Did And More Than Any Teacher's Well-intentioned Lecture On Martin Luther King Did.

I'm Constantly Around People That Talk A Lot But Say Nothing. A Sad Case.

The Tasks I Set Out For Myself Are What I Do To Beat The Perfect Pointlessness Of Life.

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