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“Is it better for a man to have chosen evil than to have good imposed upon him?”
― A Clockwork Orange
― A Clockwork Orange

“To hell with reality! I want to die in music, not in reason or in prose. People don't deserve the restraint we show by not going into delirium in front of them. To hell with them!”
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“I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me.”
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“[...]the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes “Awww!”
― On the Road
― On the Road
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