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Do you know why Albert Camus was so prolific? He wrote to keep from screaming.

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Henry Rollins
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: February 13
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Smart people make good choices. They dig science and say 'no' to the invasion of sovereign nations for the pleasure of corporations.
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If you think about it, every single species is endangered. Homo sapiens at the front of the line, mosquitoes and lawyers at the back.
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You can pass all the gun legislation you want. None of it will make me feel any more or less safe than I do right at this moment.
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If I had to live my life in anticipation of what others thought of me, little would get done.
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I think politicians get hamstrung by the nature of politics when the private sector can really do great things.
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I lay off a lot modern fiction and only rely on living writers for non-fiction work.
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I thought I was gonna be in the minimum-wage working world all my life.
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Americans have been dumbed down to the point where more people watching 'American Idol' than listen to the state of the union address. And that's too bad. I'm not trying to take any bread out of the mouth of Simon Cowell, but if the president is speaking to the people of the United States, and people are going to watch 'American Idol,' that's sad.
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You are the untold story. You are the impassioned truth wanting to scream its existence, to be forever trapped by a strong hand clapped firmly over the mouth of my soul.
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Don't hide behind the Constitution or the Bible. If you're against gay marriage, just be honest, put a scarlet 'H' on your shirt, and say, 'I am a homophobe!'
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If you paid Americans a living wage, they would be able to pay for products made by Americans in America.
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I have to keep moving I don't want to think I'm going to work all day today I don't want to stop Don't want to let my brain catch up my thoughts How will I be able to tell them that I'm a shadow A grey patch of cold rotting life
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I don't need to have my convictions confirmed by a show of numbers. However, being among people in front of a band leads me to believe that all is not lost, that humans, now and then, can communicate on a higher level than the political and the practical.
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I know you’ll never love me but maybe you’ll stay for awhile.
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Rarely do I do film press because I'm so low on the food chain of the movie, and for me it's just this thing I did for four weeks before the next tour started.
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I believe that when the body is strong, the mind thinks strong thoughts.
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I'm not exactly ambitious as much as I have a very good realization of what I am and what I am capable of.
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It wasn't until my late twenties that I learned that by working out I had given myself a great gift. I learned that nothing good comes without work and a certain amount of pain. When I finish a set that leaves me shaking, I know more about myself. When something gets bad, I know it can't be as bad as that workout.
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After having read a lot of fiction, literature, whatever you want to call it, from Wolfe to Houellebecq, I think you have to have an understanding and insight of the human condition that is informed and motivated by a desire to immerse yourself in the human world and bring these stories to bear.
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I would like go to Palestine and interview people there about what their lives are like same thing in Iran.
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