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When you cannot joke about the darkness of life, that’s when the darkness takes over.

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Amanda Palmer
Age: 48
Born: 1976
Born: April 30
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I make the music that I want to make and make the show that I want to make. If you like it, you come. If you don't like it, you don't have to.
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If I simply do what I've always done, it's never failed me.
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If we can repair things emotionally, a lot of other things would follow.
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Eat the pain. Send it back into the void as love.
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Nothing is crueller than children who come from good homes.
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There's really no honor in proving that you can carry the entire load on your own shoulders. Andit's lonely.
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