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“Love, love will tear us apart, again.”
Source : Ian Curtis (2014). “So This is Permanence: Joy Division Lyrics and Notebooks”, p.77, Faber & Faber
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“If I do not give a friend "The benefit of the doubt," but put the worst construction instead of the best on what is said or done, then I know nothing of Calvary love.”
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“We want to sing the love of danger, the habit of energy and rashness.”
Source : Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, “Futuristic Manifesto”
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“Between the probable and proved there yawns A gap. Afraid to jump, we stand absurd, Then see behind us sink the ground and, worse, Our very standpoint crumbling. Desperate dawns Our only hope: to leap into the Word That opens up the shuttered universe.”
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“I ask for the movement to continue, for the movement to grow, because last week I got a phone call from Altoona, Pennsylvania, and my election gave somebody else, one more person, hope. And after all, that's what this is all about. It's not about personal gain, not about ego, not about power — it's about giving those young people out there in the Altoona, Pennsylvanias, hope. You gotta give them hope.”
Source : Tape recording (November 18, 1977) to be played in the event of his assassination as quoted in Randy Shilts "The Mayor of Castro Street: The Life and Times of Harvey Milk" (p. 277), 1982.
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“Obviously, I have been a pro-choice candidate for my entire political career, and obviously there is controversy always surrounding this issue.”
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“There is eternal simplicity to a solution once it has been discovered!”
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“It's hard to figure out the secrets of the universe when you're trying to figure out where you and your girlfriend are going to sleep next month.”
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“By the time we hit the streets they were silent and closed in on us, and they had assumed the Nonchalant Look, an expression that said, I am not a nurse escorting six lunatics to the ice cream parlor. But they were, and we were their six lunatics, so we behaved like lunatics.”
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“The more mirror-minded you become, the more your home will reflect shining charm!”
