Robert Stone Quotes

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• It’s hard to stay away from religion when you mess with acid.
• What you're trying to do when you write is to crowd the reader out of his own space and occupy it with yours, in a…
• I've always remembered. This fellow said to me - if you think someones'doing you wrong, it's not for you to judge. Kill them first and…
• At the time, acid made me consider questions of reality, the difference, as someone said, between words and silence. It also brought back a lot…
• Life is a means of extracting fiction.
• Everybody's after a new morning. What do we have to run up and salute tomorrow?
• I think everybody must be aware that this society is a whole lot shakier now than it was before the war. I was trying to…
• I'm not much crazier than anybody else, but I'm not much saner.
• It's all about letting the story take over.
• It's creepy, knowing someone might be watching me. Why do they need that?
• It's easy to create a country, all you have to do is to think of a name for it.
• The process of creating is related to the process of dreaming although when you are writing you're doing it and when you're dreaming, it's doing…
• What is worst about America was acted out. What is best in America doesn't export.

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