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3bae219 Kill the body and the head will die. humor biography drugs Hunter S. Thompson
5c602dd The writer has to die to give birth to the intellectual in the service of the wretched of the earth. writing-life sacrifice altruism birth-and-rebirth french-authors french-biographers french-biographies french-resistance intellectual-theories public-intellectuals service-to-mankind women-biographers ideologies biography jean-paul-sartre Annie Cohen-Solal
072d4f4 It is indeed strange, given the heavy emphasis placed by chroniclers on Churchill's sheer magnitude of personality, that the ingredient of pure ambition should be so much ignored or even disallowed. personality biography larger-than-life winston-churchill Christopher Hitchens
04ef7d7 was a self-declared atheist attempting to lift the stultifying fog of the gods from the mind of humankind. berkman stultifying brainwashing biography atheism atheist deceit David Burns
4e76fba "You know...give peace a chance, not shoot people for peace. All we need is love. I believe it. it's damned hard but I absolutely believe it. We're not the first to say 'Imagine no countries' or 'Give peace a chance' but we're carrying that torch, like the Olympic torch, passing it from hand to hand, to each other, to each country, to each generation. That's our job...I've never claimed divinity. I've never claimed purity of soul. I've never claimed to have the answer to life. I can only put out songs and answer questions as honestly as I can, but only as honestly as I can, no more, no less. "I used to think that the world was doing it to me and that the world owed me something, and that either the conservatives or the socialists or the fascists or the communists or the Christians or the Jews were doing something to me, and when you're a teenybopper that's what you think. I'm 40 now. I don't think that anymore, 'cause I found out it doesn't fucking work. The thing goes on anyway and all you're doing is jacking off and screaming about what your mommy or daddy or society did...I have found out personally...that I am responsible for it as well as them. I am part of them." john-lennon philip-norman biography Philip Norman