When she comes
She pulls you close
She breathes in short bursts
Her eyes close
Her head tilts back
Her mouth opens slightly
Her thighs turn to steel, and then melt
She is perfect
And you feel like you are everything.


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Voting is completely important. People in America think democracy is a given. I think of it as an ec...
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If I were a doctor, I would prescribe that you addict yourself deeply and irrevocably to music and n...
HENRY ROLLINS
Like a lot of inwardly drawn young people, I spent a lot of time in libraries. At my high school, I ...
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August used to be a sad month for me. As the days went on, the thought of school starting weighed he...
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It's why real men just go out in the woods and howl. I must do it and get paid.
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I contribute a large amount of money to the Southern Poverty Law Center, so I'm on their mailing...
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Juan Williams is a very sharp guy.
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Citizens United didn't work. Hey, Koch brothers, Karl Rove, Shellgame Adelson: Democracy trumps ...
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I've been on 'Jay Leno,' and everyone likes Jay, but being on that show is a really bori...
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25 Years of Bullshit.
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For me, Memphis has always been a city that holds a great deal of meaning and also leads me to a lot...
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That Newt Gingrich or any mainstream Republican has the nerve to look down from what they perceive a...
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For many years, my favorite director has been the Japanese giant Akira Kurosawa.
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Literally thousands of lawsuits have been filed against the NFL by retired players, many of whom say...
HENRY ROLLINS
I think it is incumbent on anyone who can to lift human dignity to the highest possible levels, main...
HENRY ROLLINS
I am an employment hyena. I am happy to make a meal of what the lions leave behind.
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I think it's fantastic when the young enrage their elders. I really do believe that if it's ...
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Imagine someone so infatuated by a band that they have every different pressing of every album the b...
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And I love the hate mail I get, the unsigned, misspelled letters I get telling me to go back to Russ...
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This is my own little rock theory: In my mind, Nirvana slayed the hair bands. They shot the top off ...
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Live music is the cure for what ails ya.
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I want a soul mate who can sit me down, shut me up, tell me ten things I don’t already know, and m...
HENRY ROLLINS
If you paid Americans a living wage, they would be able to pay for products made by Americans in Ame...
HENRY ROLLINS
The Wacken festival started more than 20 years ago with just a few hundred people in attendance. Tic...
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You are beautiful like demolition. Just the thought of you draws my knuckles white. I don’t need a...
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Mr. Christ, I read you as an infinitely patient entity who, as they say, often works in mysterious w...
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Marriage equality is a term so ridiculous on its face that when you hear it mentioned, you would thi...
HENRY ROLLINS
Nelson Mandela will always be the face of South Africa. The traveler passing through the country wil...
HENRY ROLLINS
I think more tolerance, more people having more access to a chance to be literate, and a chance to s...
HENRY ROLLINS
The fact is, in the minds of many, Trayvon Martin received the appropriate punishment for a true cri...
HENRY ROLLINS
Without the blues, modern music would be nothing like it is now - not remotely.
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Since the last tour I have done a lot of extensive travel to Iraq, Kuwait, Siberia, South Korea and ...
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I walk the straight lines. I walk through the summer nights. I walk the silver rope of dreams. I wal...
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I am ready for whatever's coming. I expect nothing but to be let down or turned away. I am alone. Go...
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I was burned out on people, their talk and their bullshit.
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You would think that pot had some kind of power; I mean come on, it's a plant, not a reason for livi...
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I want to meet a woman that will make me stop and listen to what she has to say. I want a woman who ...
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Why do you think the old stories tell of men who set out on great journeys to impress the gods? Beca...
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Keep your blood clean, your body lean, and your mind sharp.
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Hope is the last thing a person does before they are defeated.
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One day, I stopped hating.
I ceased all meaningless activity.
I completed the circle. I HENRY ROLLINS
Sometimes it seems the harder you try to hold onto something or someone the more it wants to get awa...
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I am too far gone to be rehabilitated.
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Maybe some things are better left broken and scattered
Veiled in darkness, secret bitterness an...
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I would like to be able to gently drift in and out of existence when I wanted to.
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You can find me in the frozen mood section.
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If I lose the light of the sun, I will write by candlelight, moonlight, no light. If I lose paper an...
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Girls aren't beautiful, they're pretty. Beautiful is too heavy a word to assign to a girl. Women are...
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My main goal is to stay alive. To keep fooling myself into hanging around. To keep getting up every ...
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The first Van Halen album makes Johnny Rotten out to be what he really was and still is: a hairdress...
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Barack Obama's administration responded to the Haitian crisis within 24 hours. Here comes the so...
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Nothing Brings People together more, then mutual hatred
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I have always maintained that Iggy Pop is the Heavyweight Champion of Rock & Roll.
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They say true love only comes around once and you have to hold out and be strong until then. I have ...
HENRY ROLLINS
If you think about it, every single species is endangered. Homo sapiens at the front of the line, mo...
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We are misery-making machines! Homo sapiens has perfected the art of causing suffering. Pain is huma...
HENRY ROLLINS
Michele Bachmann is always a great person to go to for an opinion about anything. She has a very act...
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I believe that today more than ever a book should be sought after even if it has only one great page...
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It's easy for me to play bad guys because it's a very linear acting. Bad guys aren't emp...
HENRY ROLLINS
If I lose the light of the sun, I will write by candlelight, moonlight, no light. If I lose paper an...
HENRY ROLLINS
There's no such thing as an ex-junkie.
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'Duck Dynasty' is a ridiculous show, and long may it wave. America and democracy will endure...
HENRY ROLLINS
Life is full of choices, if you have the guts to go for it. That's why I get immediately bored with ...
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