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- I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence.
- Frederick Douglass (1817 - 1895)
- When the president decides something on Monday, he still believes it on Wednesday -- no matter what happened Tuesday.
- Stephen Colbert, Speech to White House Correspondent's Dinner, April 30, 2006
- The greatest thing you'll ever learn is just to love and be loved in return.
- Eden Ahbez, "Nature Boy" (song, recorded by Nat King Cole)
- Nothing on Earth so beautiful as the final haul on Halloween night.
- Steve Almond
- For the great mass of mankind, the only saving grace needed is a steady fidelity to what is nearest to hand and heart for the short moment of each human effort.
- Joseph Conrad (1857 - 1924)
- The young know how truly difficult and dreadful youth can be. Their youth is wasted on everyone else, that's the horror. The young have no authority, no respect.
- Anne Rice (1941 - ), "Tale of the Body Thief"
- No matter how long we exist, we have our memories. Points in time which time itself cannot erase. Suffering may distort my backward glances, but even to suffering, some memories will yield nothing of ther beauty or their splendor. Rather they remain as hard as gems.
- Anne Rice (1941 - ), "Blood and Gold"
- There are people accusing me that I'm sick, that I'm a danger to morals, western civilization and basically everything under the sun. And they've got these wild stories about me, completely off the wall, completely untrue. They thought them up and it makes you wonder what goes on in their brain, but of course, they don't consider themselves sick. They think they're normal because they don't dress like I do.
- Marilyn Manson (1969 - )
- In the midst of life we are in death. Earth to earth, ashes to ashes, dust to dust.
- Book of Common Prayer, Burial Service
- I view my job as being someone who is supposed to piss people off. I don't want to be just one-of-the-guys. I don't want to be just a smiling face you see on television presenting some vapid kind of easily- digestible garbage. This is rock and roll. I want to be a rock and roll star! Rock and roll is about shaking things up, making people act and react. That's what I do.
- Marilyn Manson (1969 - )
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