“Concentrate on what you want to say to yourself and your friends. Follow your inner moonlight; don't hide the madness. You say what you want to say when you don't care who's listening.”

— Allen Ginsberg

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Allen Ginsberg 76

American poet 1926–1997

Steve Maraboli (1975)

Source: Life, the Truth, and Being Free (2010), p. 156

“Follow your inner moonlight, don’t hide the madness.”

Allen Ginsberg book Howl and Other Poems

Variant: Follow your inner moonlight; don't hide the madness.
Source: Howl and Other Poems

“How often each day, if you were to verbalize your inner reality at that moment, would you have to say, “I don't want to be where I am?” What does it feel like when you don't want to be where you are–the traffic jam, your place of work, the airport lounge, the people you are with?”

Eckhart Tolle (1948) German writer

Source: Stillness Speaks (2003), Ch 6

“If you're going to say what you want to say, you're going to hear what you don't want to hear.”

Roberto Bolaño book The Insufferable Gaucho

Source: The Insufferable Gaucho

“If you don't want your tax dollars to help the poor, then stop saying that you want a country based on Christian values. Because you don't.”

Jimmy Carter (1924) American politician, 39th president of the United States (in office from 1977 to 1981)

The correct attribution http://www.snopes.com/politics/quotes/carterpoor.asp is comedian John Fugelsang, on the TV program Viewpoint (29 May 2013)
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