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Ray Manzarek: [to Jim] Things are about to explode man. You can feel it in the air. Vietnam's right out there. Sides are being chosen. People wanna fight or fuck, love or kill, everything's gonna flame. The planet's screaming for change, Morrison. Make the myths man! Patricia Kennealy: [to Jim] Come on rock god, fuck me, fuck me good. Gloria Stavers: [to Jim] You control the audience, like dogs, manipulate them Jim, one picture can control a million people, be anything you want—growl at them, be ugly, be frightened, be selfish. Be man, woman, whild, animal. Live, die, return again. Anything you want. Everything is permitted. Go on look at yourself, fall in love with yourself. You're your own audience now Jim. They want you. Worship and love and adore you...Jim Morrison, the god of Rock and Cock... Andy Warhol: [handing Jim a golden telephone] Edie gave this to me and said mmmmm, I could talk to God with this. But I don't really have anything to say. So... mmmm now you can talk to God.

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Jim: [entering through the window] Hi. Pam: Wow! Hi...You have a problem with doors? Jim: Waste of time. I followed you... from the beach... Pam: Wow! You followed me? Why? Jim: 'Cause... you're the one. [He kisses her] Pam: Wow... neat.

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Trick: [to Jim, after Jim's film was panned] Hey man whatdya expect, an Oscar? Bones: You can't quit, you gotta voice. People can't dig cause they don't understand yet. Jack: If you're an individual, if you're too good, they wanna cut your dick off. Look what happened to Orson Welles. Trick: You quit now, they'll yank your deferment in no time and they'll get you for Vietnam man. Three more months you graduate. Bones: Be cool, you never learned fuckin patience Morrison, you want everything at once. Nick: They didn't get it. So make your films and fuck what they think. Jim: You know what I think? Bones: Yeah whadda you think? Jim: You really want to know what I think? Bones: Yeah yeah, whatddaya think? Jim: I think we gotta get really ripped!

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Jim: What turns you on? Pam: I don't know. Experience. Freedom. Love... Now. Peyote's like love. When it's given it's blessed. When it's sold it's damned. I like peyote. I like acid, it's easier to get. I like the spiritual voyage. The first time I did acid I saw God. I did. I had a friend who was Christ. And he was Judas too. I suddenly knew the secret of everything -- that we're all one, the universe is one. And that everything is beautiful. Jim: Is it? I don't know. I think you're alive by confronting death -- by experiencing pain. Pam: I think you're alive by recognizing beauty -- seeing truth because when you discover truth you discover what love is... we're all saying the same thing. It's "love me and I'll love you." Jim: It's only through death that you know life. Jesus, medicine men heal people by sacrificing their own life. Pam: Do you love death? Jim: I think life hurts a lot more than death. When you die the pain is over.

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Jerry: What shit, "day destroys the night", "crawl back in your brain", "go insane". What do people wanna pay money to hear that shit? Jim: The greater the suffering, the more terrible the events, the greater the pleasure Jerry. They want it, it's catharsis. Like the ancient Greeks. Jerry: We're in Los Angeles, punk, how would you know? They like your pants, they're not listenin' to you, what the hell they see in you I... Jim: But they understand Jerry. All our real desires are unconscious and unseen. Jerry: You're the weirdest fuckin' guy I ever... Jim: You love us? Jerry: I love ya. You got two more shows to do.

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Ray: [after being propositioned by a record manager] We'll have a band meeting. The four of us do everything unanimously or we don't do it. Manager: The musketeers. I'm touched. But lemme tell you something -- loyalty don't pay the bills.

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Jim: Jesus Ray, every girl out there wanted to fuck me, I could feel it for the first time! Ray: Right on stud. But you better watch out for the guys.

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John: I think I'm fucked up. I'm not thinking right. Jim: You're fucked up John. Go with it, confusion is the sound of creation. John: You should see your eyes right now, you're death. Look at your eyes -- you're crazy man, you look crazy. You scare me. Jim: No no no John John. God is crazy too. God is part insane as well as sane. Not in control all the time. Dionysus was the God of the wine. He made ecstasy but he also made madness. Madness is all right. That's what you want, isn't it, isn't it?

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Ray: I'm in pain man. I want something from the peyote. I feel the universe functioning perfectly but I'm still perfectly locked inside myself. Instead of oneness, I feel total isolation. Aloneness. Fear... pain...Jim, all I feel is pain. Jim: Pain makes me feel more alive Ray. Pain is meant to wake us up. People try to hide their pain but they're wrong. John: I feel lust. I want to fuck everything I can, and I know it will never be enough. Jim: Pam wants you. You're a good Catholic John, you want it so you can feel guilty about it... Fuck death away John. Robbie: I feel Fear... so bad I just numb out all my feelings. I'm afraid of my father, I'm afraid of Yahweh... I wish I could play my guitar. Jim: Maybe you should kill your father Robbie. He tried to kill you. Kill him! Robbie: I'm so fucking scared. Jim: But you're alive! It's beautiful! Fear, pain, lust, we've got to know all our feelings before we can come out the other side free men. Don't feel ashamed of yourselves, don't let

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Jim: I don't mind dying in a plane crash, a smile on my face. Pam: As compared to what? Jim: I just don't want to go out slow -- brain tumor, botulism. I want to feel what it's like, cause death is only going to happen to you once.

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Ed Sullivan: Look, you boys don't forget to smile now. There's no reason to be so sullen out there... Jim: Uh well, we're kind of a sullen group, Ed.

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Pam: Aren't you doing this for you? Because you're a poet, not a rock star. Ed Sullivan's not a place for you. Jim: You really know what I am Pam? You know what poetry is? Where is the feast they promised us? Where is the wine -- the new wine -- dying on the vine? Pam: What are you saying? Jim: Y'see -- I lied to you. I really love fame.

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Pam: Fuck you man I'm outta here. Jim: Get mad! Yeahhh! Love my girl! Yeah, go fuck the other guys. How many white guys have you fucked Pam? 10, 20? Black guys what? You like Chinese dicks? Mongolian penis? 30? Pam: How many dogs have you fucked? You don't say no to anybody! Drugs, dogs, uglies, you'd fuck a doorknob with butter on it! Jim: How could I do that? Pam: [shouting] You're the first who couldn't make it with me anyway! You're the only limp dick in the lot!

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Journalist: What are your songs about Mr. Morrison? Jim: Uh, love death travel... revolt. We all write the songs, we're interested in anything about disorder, chaos, especially activity which seems to have no meaning...Like This. I think when you make peace with authority, you become authority. Journalist: Can you define that a little more? Jim: Yeah you can call us erotic politicians I guess.

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Pam: [about Patricia] You actually put your dick in this woman Jim? Jim: Well I... sometimes yeah. Pam: I understand... I really do but don't ever think that Jim's gonna love or take care of you. You're one of a hundred you know. Jim: Hey -- don't you know when to stop! Pam: Look who's talking. Patricia: I'd like to think Jim can make up his own mind who he loves and who he doesn't. Pam: Don't kid yourself sweetheart, Jim's crazy but he's not that crazy. He loves me.

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Ray: [about Pam] I never knew what you saw in that nightmare chick man. Jim: Well she is kinda flakey -- like me. I mean she's just so vulnerable about everything. It makes me sad man. But she's always kinda believed in something about me y'know -- her little picture of me as the unsung poet -- and it's a fantasy I kinda dig y'know, 'stead of the one I live. Ray: I don't know man, I don't wanna sound like your old man but you're only 27, you're living like you gotta get it all in, you gotta slow down man, you did it, you broke through to the other side. Jim: We didn't break thru Ray, we just pushed things a little. When you really break through, there's nothing left. No music, no Doors, no God, nothing -- only a will to power. Ray: I don't believe that. You were an American prince, man -- with overbred genes -- [Jim laughs] No! What could've been Jim? You could've been President. [Jim laughs] No man! What could've been Jim? We stood here on this beach on the edge of the Pacific that cr