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Desperation is
the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave
behind everything they have ever believed in can hope to
escape.
-- William S. Burroughs
1914-1997, American Writer
What is most
original in a man's nature is often that which is most
desperate. Thus new systems are forced on the world by men
who simply cannot bear the pain of living with what is.
Creators care nothing for their systems except that they be
unique. If Hitler had been born in Nazi Germany he wouldn't
have been content to enjoy the atmosphere.
-- Leonard Cohen
1934-, Canadian-born American
Musician, Songwriter, Singer
Desperation is
sometimes as powerful an inspirer as genius.
-- Benjamin Disraeli
1804-1881, British Statesman,
Prime Minister
Desperation is
like stealing from the Mafia: you stand a good chance of
attracting the wrong attention.
-- Doug Horton
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There exists,
at the bottom of all abasement and misfortune, a last
extreme which rebels and joins battle with the forces of law
and respectability in a desperate struggle, waged partly by
cunning and partly by violence, at once sick and ferocious,
in which it attacks the prevailing social order with the
pin-pricks of vice and the hammer-blows of crime.
-- Victor Hugo
1802-1885, French Poet,
Dramatist, Novelist
My interest in
desperation lies only in that sometimes I find myself having
become desperate. Very seldom do I start out that way. I can
see of course that, in the abstract, thinking and all
activity is rather desperate.
-- Willem De Kooning
1904-, Dutch-born American
Artist
The mass of
men lead lives of quiet desperation.
-- Henry David Thoreau
1817-1862, American Essayist,
Poet, Naturalist
She wore far
too much rouge last night and not quite enough clothes. That
is always a sign of despair in a woman.
-- Oscar Wilde
1856-1900, British Author,
Wit
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