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Favorite Artists~
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Andy Warhol
Vincent Van Gogh
Pablo Picasso
Edvard Munch
Salvador Dali
Rembrandt van Rijn
Claude Monet
Jackson Pollock
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Favorite Poets~
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Edgar Allan Poe
Jim Morrison
Dylan Thomas
Allen Ginsberg
T.S. Elliot
Emily Dickinson
William Blake
Robert Frost


My favorite Philosophers are Friedrich Nietzsche and Aldous Huxley.


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"All morons hate it when you call them a moron." - J.D. Salinger
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"An artist's only concern is to shoot for some kind of perfection, and on his own terms, not anyone else's." - J.D. Salinger
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"I'm sick of not having the courage to be an absolute nobody." - J.D. Salinger
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"Cruel leaders are replaced only to have new leaders turn cruel." - Che Guevara
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"From reading too much, and sleeping too little, his brain dried up on him and he lost his judgment." - Miguel De Cervantes
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"A closed mouth catches no flies." - Miguel De Cervantes
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"I may be drunk, Miss, but in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly." - Winston Churchill
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"Success is going from failure to failure without a loss of enthusiam." - Winston Churchill
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"A prisoner of war is a man who tries to kill you and fails, and then asks you not to kill him." - Winston Churchill
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"A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool." - William Shakespear
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"Think for yourself and question authority".
-Timothy Leary
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"In the information age, you don't teach philosophy as they did after feudalism. You perform it. If Aristotle were alive today he'd have a talk show." - Timothy Leary
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"My advice to people today is as follows: If you take the game of life seriously, if you take your nervous system seriously, if you take your sense organs seriously, if you take the energy process seriously, you must turn on, tune in, and drop out." - Timothy Leary
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"There are three side effects of acid: enhanced long-term memory, decreased short-term memory, and I forget the third." - Timothy Leary
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"I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity." - Edgar Allan Poe
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"I wish I could write as mysterious as a cat." - Edgar Allan Poe
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"If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear to man as it is, infinite. For man has closed himself up, till he sees all things through' narrow chinks of his cavern." - William Blake
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"I dream my painting, and then I paint my dream." - Vincent Van Gogh
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"Listen, real poetry doesn't say anything; it just ticks off the possibilities. Opens all doors. You can walk through anyone that suits you." - Jim Morrison
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"And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you." - Friedrich Nietzsche
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"Television has brought back murder into the home - where it belongs." - Alfred Hitchcock
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"Every man's memory is his private literature."- Aldous
Huxley
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"All truth is simple... is that not doubly a lie?" - Friedrich Nietzsche
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"I think it's good if a song has more than one meaning. Maybe that kind of song can reach far more people." - Syd Barrett
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"It's not the bullet that makes us scared, it's the anticipaton of it." - Alfred Hitchcock
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And now we rise
And we are everywhere

- Epitaph of Nick Drake
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~Winners~

~Gold~
"A Piper In Sight"
"It's An Idea, Someday..."
"A Perfumed Garden"
"Any Color You Like"

~Silver~
"Acid Rain"
"Scream Of The Butterfly"

~Bronze~
"The Ruins Of A Rain"

~Honorable Mention~
"The Tales Of The Everyday Life"
"Nevermind Lucy"

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