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When you hit a wall – of your own imagined limitations – just kick it in.
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Sam Shepard
Age: 73 †
Born: 1943
Born: November 5
Died: 2017
Died: July 27
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I think without writing I would feel completely useless.
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When you're looking for someone, you're looking for some aspect of yourself, even if you don't know it ... What we're searching for is what we lack.
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I had a definite sense of somehow being a passenger in an evil vehicle crusing through Paradise.
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