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“All I wanted to do was sneak out into the night and disappear somewhere, and go and find out what everybody was doing all over the country.”—Jack Kerouac

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“There is no event or thing in either animate or inanimate nature that does not in some way partake of language.”–Walter Benjamin

“But when you're in front of an audience and you make them laugh at a new idea, you're guiding the whole being for the moment. No one is ever more him/herself than when they really laugh. Their defenses are down. It's very Zen-like, that moment. They are completely open, completely themselves when that message hits the brain and the laugh begins. That's when new ideas can be implanted. If a new idea slips in at that moment, it has a chance to grow.”
― George Carlin, Last Words

“I lived so carefully, thinking someone was watching. But the stage was empty, the audience never came.”- ozamu dazai

“The existence of other people is essentially awkward.”
― Lionel Shriver, Checker and the Derailleurs

“Being that can be understood is language.”
–Hans-Georg Gadamer
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