John Holmes Quotes

#1. Every genuine boy is a rebel and an anarch. If he were allowed to develop according to his own instincts, his own inclinations, society would undergo such a radical transformation as to make the adult revolutionary cower and cringe.

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#2. The biggest trouble with success is that its formula is just about the same as that for a nervous breakdown.

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#3. There is no exercise better for the heart than reaching down and lifting people up.

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#4. To be beat is to be at the bottom of your personality, looking up.

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#5. And just then he realized in a flash that men have only this sad knowledge with which to heal themselves: when you lose life, you grow wise. But that is better than maiming life to hold it.

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#6. It is well to remember that the entire universe, with one trifling exception, is composed of others.

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#7. Yes, we love peace, but we are not willing to take wounds for it, as we are for war.

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#8. I liked the rain. It made it harder, the harder the better. I didn't see accidents but there are a lot of broken cars out there.

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#9. A dog is not almost-human, and I know of no greater insult to the canine race than to describe it as such.

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