Each generation wants new symbols, new people, new names. They want to divorce themselves from their predecessors.

Quote by Jim Morrison

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I'm kind of hooked to the game of art and literature; my heroes are artists...

I'm kind of hooked to the game of art and literature; my heroes are artists...

This is the strangest life I've ever known.

This is the strangest life I've ever known.

I think of myself as an intelligent, sensitive human being with the soul of a...

I think of myself as an intelligent, sensitive human being with the soul of a...

The time to hesitate is through.

The time to hesitate is through.

Music inflames temperament.

Music inflames temperament.

I wouldn't mind dying in a plane crash. It'd be a good way to go....

I wouldn't mind dying in a plane crash. It'd be a good way to go....

If my poetry aims to achieve anything, it's to deliver people from the limited ways...

If my poetry aims to achieve anything, it's to deliver people from the limited ways...

Film spectators are quiet vampires.

Film spectators are quiet vampires.

A hero is someone who rebels or seems to rebel against the facts of existence...

A hero is someone who rebels or seems to rebel against the facts of existence...

Where's your will to be weird? Where's your will to be weird?

Where's your will to be weird? Where's your will to be weird?

The appeal of cinema lies in the fear of death.

The appeal of cinema lies in the fear of death.

Violence isn't always evil. What's evil is the infatuation with violence.

Violence isn't always evil. What's evil is the infatuation with violence.

Films are collections of dead pictures which are given artificial insemination.

Films are collections of dead pictures which are given artificial insemination.

Death makes angels of us all and gives us wings where we had shoulders smooth...

Death makes angels of us all and gives us wings where we had shoulders smooth...

The most loving parents and relatives commit murder with smiles on their faces. They force...

The most loving parents and relatives commit murder with smiles on their faces. They force...

When you make your peace with authority, you become authority.

When you make your peace with authority, you become authority.

Whoever controls the media, controls the mind.

Whoever controls the media, controls the mind.

It's like gambling somehow. You go out for a night of drinking and you don't...

It's like gambling somehow. You go out for a night of drinking and you don't...

If four or five guys tell you that you're drunk, even though you know you...

If four or five guys tell you that you're drunk, even though you know you...

A man may acquire a taste for wine or brandy, and so lose his love...

A man may acquire a taste for wine or brandy, and so lose his love...

Gambling undermines the moral fiber of society.

Gambling undermines the moral fiber of society.