Damien Echols Quotes

#1. I've learned over the years that sooner or later a person's physical appearance comes to resemble whatever is in their heart.

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#2. Good things are always coming; sometimes we just forget it.

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#3. Faith is nothing more than a watered-down attempt to accept someone else's insight as your own. Belief is the psychic equivalent of an article of second-hand clothing, worn out and passed down.

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#4. I have two definitions for the word "magick." The first is knowing that I can effect change through my own will, even behind these bars; and the other meaning is more experiential - seeing beauty for a moment in the midst of the mundane.

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#5. Christmas Day itself is always bittersweet, because it's the last day of that beautiful magick that's been building up like a tidal wave for the past month. In just a week it will be hard to even remember what it's like. I'll be brokenhearted at the thought of it being gone again for an entire year.

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#6. Most people who spew hatred aren't very intelligent or motivated. They tend to be lazy, and if for some reason they are coaxed into picking up a pen, their messages are mostly incoherent and largely illiterate.

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#7. Those with less curiosity or ambition just mumble that God works in mysterious ways. I intend to catch him in the act.

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#8. I want to make the world a more magickal place. To give magick a form that people appreciate, and that changes their lives. To create art that will make people want to forever reject the mundane and mediocre world they've been surrounded by

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#9. Everywhere you look you see people with things that you do not have, and it has a profound mental effect.

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#10. From now on I will live in a state of joyous expectation.

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#11. Any friendship that is worth its weight is like a dark and secret place where you hide bits of yourself. The door can be opened only by the two people who have the key, and you carry it with you wherever you go. Magnify that by a billion, and you begin to get an idea of what marriage is like.

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#12. Without books, I would have gone insane long ago.

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#13. Nostalgia is the only friend that stays with you forever.

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#14. I don't want a "holy" life of prayer and contemplation. I want a life of strife, lust, striving, seeking, struggling, and debauchery.

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#15. How do you make someone understand what it means or how it feels to be torn in half? Not many people know this desperate need to be put back together again.

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#16. When I try to picture heaven, I see a place where it's always December, every radio station plays hair bands, and every time I check my pockets they're full of Hershey's Kisses. There's a Christmas parade on every street, every day is my birthday, and the sun always sets at 4:58 p.m.

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#17. I don't want to be an oddity, a freak, or a curiosity. I don't want to be the car wreck that people slow down to gawk at.

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#18. Ignorance breeds superstition.

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#19. Normally Halloween was like Christmas for me. I would anticipate it for weeks, decorating myself and the house, as well as strolling around the neighborhood, admiring everyone else's decorations. Nothing lifts my spirit like a scarecrow in the front yard.

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#20. All of the negativity and unsavory characters in this environment only serve to make the exceptions shine all the more brightly.

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#21. Now I hoard knowledge out of fear. I figure the more I know, the more I'll be able to control a situation and keep from getting hurt again.

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#22. There was no safe place in all the world for me. My stomach was filled with ice water. Hearing Domini was the final straw. Something in me broke. All the King's horses and all the King's men would never be able to put me back together again.

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#23. My heart, soul, body, and mind all have scars that will never properly heal. Still I survived.

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#24. You never know how much you need music until you don't have it. I missed it so much my heart hurt.

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#25. I caught a glimpse of my shadow today. It's usually so hard to see because it always hides behind me. It's so much easier to see everyone else's.

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#26. I learned a long time ago that you have to experience something for yourself or you never really comprehend it.

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