The ordinary man is involved in action, the hero acts. An immense difference.
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A man writes to throw off the poison which he has accumulated because of his false way of life. He is trying to recapture his innocence, yet all he succeeds in doing (by writing) is to inoculate the world with a virus of his disillusionment. No man would set a word down on paper if he had the courage to live out what he believed in.Henry Miller
The legal system is often a mystery, and we, its priests, preside over rituals baffling to everyday citizens.
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The world isn't kept running because it's a paying proposition. (God doesn't make a cent on the deal.) The world goes on because a few men in every generation believe in it utterly, accept it unquestioningly they underwrite it with their lives.
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There is no salvation in becoming adapted to a world which is crazy.
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When shit becomes valuable, the poor will be born without assholes.
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