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Some are born to greatness and some have greatness thrust upon them for blowing off the hands and feet of Nicaraguan coffee harvesters. The rest of us are forced to work. It’s amusing but nothing logical or scientific.

– Sal Salasin  Famous Quote

added 3 years ago

We wake up, breathe, live life, often against our wishes and our better judgement. We console ourselves by telling ourselves this is no fault of our own but that doesn’t take away the reality of the pain, the streaming dreams, the utter shock of life, the shattered pieces of survival.

– Scott C. Holstad  Famous Quote

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If I killed myself now would I make the papers would anyone care I already know the answer to that besides it’s irrelevant

– Scott C. Holstad  Famous Quote

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Factories find work so meaningless they dream of being torn down even before they’re built.

– Antler  Famous Quote

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well it’s almost noon and i've done nothing all day, all my great plans shot to hell, of getting up at 7 and writing 3 new poems 1 new story 5 letters of sending out submissions to 4 new magazines and making several phone calls all by noon – so i'll just keep drinking coffee and reading from the stack of books on my kitchen table and maybe i'll go catch a flick and maybe just maybe i'll get half as much done tomorrow.

– Scott C. Holstad  Famous Quote

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today is a good day for murder love hatred sex violence drugs revisionist attitudes anarchy of the sense letters and the like teatime exists in the MinD snarling underground day addiction

– Scott C. Holstad  Famous Quote

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she said i want you to meet him you'll like him really yeah i thought like car crash broken glass rusty razored underwear barbed wire cheer acid fear like walking down normandie naked nightly like tiger claws 'n earthquake falls i'll really relish meeting 'm.

– Scott C. Holstad  Famous Quote

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she wants to to be loved for a few hours at least. I look away, people need peace. it’s raining hard outside; lives are breaking in the storm.

– Scott C. Holstad  Famous Quote

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Winter is a long descent Into hell, a daring Kidnapper, on whose lips Rest the word always. Look upon it as the rains Do, leafless trees blowing Earthward like constraints, Shackles of the soul.

– Scott C. Holstad  Famous Quote

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we’re a community full of signs, the Billboard Generation, tell me you love me and buy me a beer. is my breath fresh enough? is love really love? is death really death? i want to be jealous but i’m an artist.

– Scott C. Holstad  Famous Quote

added 3 years ago

I lay in bed absorbing fear, collecting strength, enjoying the slumberous sounds of solitude. To perish without love, I think, is a tragedy worth knowing.

– Scott C. Holstad  Famous Quote

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I head this man on t.v. saying ‘in order for God to be able to use someone they must first fear God.’ I have also heard that God is in everyone. This must be why so many people scare me.

– Lisa Kucharski  Famous Quote

added 3 years ago

People tend to get nervous when you stare at them. They are racked with enough insecurities as it is. They always look away, glance back quickly and look away again. Some part of them melts and as they attempt to gather themselves, their flesh forms puddles at their feet.

– Scott C. Holstad  Famous Quote

added 3 years ago

In the space of two mere weeks, I have come to know the meaning of life. I won’t share it with you, because we all have to find our own meaning. Camus was right, though. Sometimes, I feel just like Meursault.

– Scott C. Holstad  Famous Quote

added 3 years ago

she dreams dreams wrapped in unknown skins. sweat scented covers are tossed aside in her urgency. she dreams recklessly of reckless abandonment in a dark, dank world.

– Scott C. Holstad  Famous Quote

added 3 years ago

I long for things. I long for things I can’t begin to describe, but while I am affected chemically, I ultimately need to assume responsibility for my actions and if love counts and life counts then I can’t be a sleepwalker. I have to choose, lie down with my choices, make my efforts, try to get better, live to see my illness, not through crazed eyes, but through the eyes of a shared language – reconstructed depths of wholeness.

– Scott C. Holstad  Famous Quote

added 3 years ago

i am sometimes afraid of the loner in me and of what is inside you your need to merge become one to see the world through another pair of eyes I'm afraid i need to retain my identity

– Scott C. Holstad  Famous Quote

added 3 years ago

i drive 160 on the freeway in the hopes of a fiery escape my major x-mas wish and like everyone else i get shit life on a razor’s edge words that kill and guns that don’t

– Scott C. Holstad  Famous Quote

added 3 years ago

sometimes it’s the senseless feelings which overwhelm you, the despair and frustration which build to dangerous levels and the subsequent release, the cigarettes, alcohol, nameless fucks, nights spent in the drunk tank. the cats howling outside the window know this and they act accordingly.

– Scott C. Holstad  Famous Quote

added 3 years ago

The thing about rights is they're not actually supposed to be voted on. That's why they're called rights.

– Rachel Maddow  Famous Quote

added 3 years ago

it’s not that i think sandals are for hippies and it’s not that i think they’re a west coast item only and it's not that I don't appreciate kind gifts. it’s just that when you wear sandals you have to clip your toenails.

– Scott C. Holstad  Famous Quote

added 3 years ago

glazed eyes staring stupid looking at nothing and seeing everything born of and into ignorance what society dictates we consume cattle gathering around learning devices called television

– Scott C. Holstad  Famous Quote

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Moods invent the man. I am a creation of turbulence, a rider of an ongoing merry-go-round.

– Scott C. Holstad  Famous Quote

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I'll be damned if my family, uncles, cousins fought, bled, sacrificed all on foreign beaches to free millions of people being tortured and killed by insane genocidal fascists AS WELL AS trying to keep the rest of the world safe from these evil monsters, only to find some decades later, flags bearing Swastikas being planted in American soil, if not eventually American political buildings and agencies!

– Scott C. Holstad  Famous Quote

added 3 years ago

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